What is Dashed Yellow Line?

In 2005, I rode across North America on a sabbatical and started a blog so the people who loved me knew I was still alive.

It was called The Daily Injection — a nod to the insulin I’d been taking since I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes years earlier. I was crossing thousands of miles alone, managing an insulin pump in the saddle, and figuring out that two wheels and open road were the closest thing I’d found to freedom. The blog was supposed to be temporary. Twenty years and 200,000 miles later, I’m still writing.

This is Dashed Yellow Line.

I ride a 2019 BMW R1250 GS and a 2007 Triumph Speed Triple. Before those, a Suzuki V-Strom that went 117,000 miles with me, and a Kawasaki Vulcan that started everything. I’ve covered most of North America on two wheels — the interstates when I have to, the backroads when I can.

What I write about: trip reports with real detail (roads, gas, food, and the mistakes), gear reviews after actual use, group rides and tech days, and the photographs that made me pull over.

Living with T1D on long rides isn’t a footnote — it’s part of how I ride. Route planning, pump management, fueling for a long day in the saddle. If you’re a diabetic rider, you’ll find some of that here too. Hit the search box to deep dive.

Motorcycling has taught me more about paying attention than anything else I’ve done. The rides that stay with you aren’t always the ones with the best roads. Sometimes it’s the road stories: a conversation at a gas station, a wrong turn that turned out right, or a sunset that made you pull over and just sit with it for a while.

That’s what this blog is about.

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