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Coooooncoooooooooord ✈️🌎🌠 This Aviation Museum may very well be the best in the world buuut without a doubt it's definitely the best in the entire USA ❤️🤍💙 I've been wanting to see a Concorde for the better part of two and a half decades. On this day that dream was turned into my reality! I might not ever get the chance to fly on one of these incredible machines but to look at one up close and personal like this was absolutely exquisite 🤩 I genuinely feel that aviation took a maaassive step backward when they retired this supersonic passenger plane back in 2003... You could go from New York to Paris in about 2 hours while rubbing shoulders with rockstars and royalty alike... Today there's nothing that even comes remotely close to the level of luxury or speed that this plane offered the world 💔 If I'm honest this museum was an absolute treasure trove having not only a Concord but also the Enola Gay, the Space Shuttle Discovery, the Nazi's Flying Wing, the P38 Lightning, not to mention another G.D. SR-71 Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaackbiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiird 🌌🚀🔥 My cousin Marsha and I spent hours enjoying all these beautiful airplanes until they shut the doors and literally kicked us out 🙈😛🤣 If you're a real aviation buff you could genuinely spend the entire day here basking in the glory of all these beautiful winged beauties and never once for a moment get bored 👌👌👌 Save this one on your map y'all 🗺️📍🧭❤️‍🔥 (at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYvAqurFGP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Some much needed down time after hitting the races 🏁🌅🛌💤 After just absolutely crushing the racetrack for 4 days straight Israel thought it would be a good idea to go cleanse ourselves in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and recuperate before our drive back to Tennessee 🌊💜🐚❤️‍🔥🐠 Thiiiis whole weekend we had been busting jokes about how we were going to get arrested pretty much non-stop and sure enough we got to meet some of Georgia's finest for having Dan the dog on the beach after just 3 minutes... Land of the free (as long as you do what we say when we say it) 🙈😛🤣🆓🚫😒 Regardless we still had a fantastic time enjoying the sunshine and the waves. I'm not much of a beach person but it was super fun watching Dan go fetch his tennis ball plowing into the waves like an absolute champion 🐕🏊‍♂️🐾🐬 Later we had an awesome evening out on the patio enjoying some pizza while cracking some more jokes and having a good ole time. These are the memories that are worth their weight in gold y'all 🪙🌌🫠 On the way back north towards Tennessee we stopped at River Street in downtown Savannah and explored the old city. I remember coming here as a kid and I can report back not much has changed buuuut it is quite a bit cleaner than it was back in the day 🔥🎉🤘 This down time was just what the doctor ordered fam 👌👌👌 (at Tybee Island, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpRZmw6LoKZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Cum 'on dooown to Gnarly Nate's & Patty Cake's Garage 🚐💨👨‍🔧🧰⚒️📐🔍⚙️🔧🔨🔥🏁 My boy @paddyrides owns & operates @onwardmotorcycletours in the B-E-A-utiful Republic of Georgia 🛵💨🇬🇪💙🚀🌌 He had a bit of a dilemma since he needed a larger vehicle to pick up more tour guest at the airport & shuttle them around Tbilisi before heading out on tour 🗺️📍🧭 He also had a bunch of specialty parts, tools, & motorcycles here in the US that needed to make the journey across the pond as well🤔 Solution: Buy the world's largest van & stack it to the rafters full of goodies. Then ship the ole girl across the sea & drive her to Onward Tours Base Camp 🚢🚚☸️🏴‍☠️🚀 We were hunting for sweet cargo vans for the better part of 2 weeks because everyone has the dream of living in a van down by the river which in the 90s was quite literally the butt of every joke... However today it is truly the Millennial American Dream 🙈 Patty found a cool Spinnaker Blue van 4 states away that had been sitting for "2 years"... The most redneck individual I've personally met this year said "It ran when parked & just needed a starter" 😂🤣😂 After driving 7 hours we arrived only to find this van to be quite a bit larger than we anticipated. So much so it actually maxed out the capacity load on the borrowed trailer & truck that we brought on this adventure 🤯 After spending the day picking this whale of a van up we rolled up our sleeves & got to work trying to get her spinning over... We replace the battery & the starter right off the bat & found the starter solenoid was not functioning. After replacing the battery cables we found we had a new starter solenoid bad from stock 💔 Once we got the engine spinning over consistently we focused our attention on the fuel situation. Ethanol gas that we have here in the USA is garbage especially if you let it sit... After closer inspection & looking over the paperwork we got with the van this bad girl had been actually sitting for at least 8 or 9 years & the ethanol in the fuel had absolutely eaten away the fuel pumps & sending units inside of both front & rear tanks 😰 Ultimately we got her purring like a kitten though 😹💪🌠 (at Ashville, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpA0cj_Llg_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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My great great grandfather worked at this fish hatchery over 120 years ago 🤯 It was absolutely incredible getting to explore this fish hatchery which I had heard about since I was barely able to remember. It was made even more special getting to share this memory with my good friends I met in Turkey 3 years ago traveling on motorcycles when we all haphazardly crossed paths as the world was shut down & we were trying to make our exodus 🛵💨🌠🖤🌄🎉🧿 My great-grandfather was born here in 1903. I had the honor of knowing Poppie & actually remember him quite well. I smoked my first cigar with him out on the front porch when I was 6 or 7 years old & we fed the squirrels. Those were the days 💝🌌🫠 My great-grandfather lived here with his 11 brothers & sisters. Apparently back in the day this was a balling job to have! They all went to boarding school every week as well as had a live-in caretaker as part of the job living & working here at this fish hatchery. My great-great-grandfather got this job because he was good friends with Tennessee senator Brownlow who most of the men in my family have been named after for the last 100 years or so 🫡💫🕺 My great grandfather visited this hatchery well into his '80s & got to meet some of the wildlife rangers & feed these rainbow trout that this place is known for. On this day I got to do the same 👌 The ranger we met was named Scott & was super friendly as well as very informative. He walked us through the entire process of how they collect the eggs, fertilize them, & ultimately grow these beautiful fish to be taken out to the wild for all of us to enjoy 💪💪💪 I showed him a picture of my great grandfather with one of the rangers that he met on his visit 40 years ago & Mr Scott recognized him right off the bat. He said he never worked with him but knows him quite well as he's out in South Dakota working a different fish hatchery job but they get together on vacation & go do wild crazy fish stuff 😂🎣🤣🐟😂 I think before I showed him that picture he may have thought I was making most of this stuff up about my family living & working here over 100 years ago but after seeing that picture it was on like Donkey Kong 🤘😛 (at Erwin, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CosHFnzrWqQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Good to finally catch up with my boy Patty Cakes 🛵💨🤘 We met 3 years ago in B-E-A-utiful Turkey when the world went on full lockdown. A year later we were both finally in the country of Georgia catching up and riding hogs together 🫠🌌🥳🇬🇪✨ When we were in Turkey we also met another American on a motorcycle traveling with his doggo @moto_mutt_international One mounting over breakfast we determined that we all lived within an hour of each other back home in the US of A and thought it would be hilarious if we could all catch up in a different hemisphere in a different time... 3 years later we where making the magic happen 🎱🪄🔮🌠 In the meantime here we are finally in North Carolina kicking it and catching up. Great to see each other after the last few years 🎉🔥⚡ Patty and I actually got his old man's Aprilia 1,000RR running after she had been sitting in storage for over half a decade. A few hours in the shop aaaand this bad girl is roaring back to life! This bike riiiiips y'all 🚀🚀🚀 (at Asheville, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/ColLdR7P3zt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Genuinely enjoyed the time with the greeeeatest grandma 💖🌌💫🎆❤️‍🔥🌠 This beautiful lady is an absolute inspiration on all levels for what it means to be an amazing human being. She raised six kids a boat load of grandkids (including myself) and countless others throughout her almost 93 years on this earth 💪💪💪 Patience and compassion is what I think of when Mamoo comes to mind. She is truly a legend 🥳🔥🎉💘 I'm beyond thrilled I had so much time in Knoxville hanging out with my aunts, uncles, cousins, and of course Grandmooo 💜💛💚💙 Extra special hanging out with Cissy Girl after losing track of her for so many years and then finally reconnecting. We got to go feast on sushi and then later the biiiiiggest steak on the planet 🤩🤯🍣🍙❣️🥩🤘 My little Nathan Christmas tree was up at Grandma's house for my whole visit and it made me smile every morning drinking coffee hanging out with Mamooski. My little cousin Billy found all these ornaments down in the basement and set this up for Grandma and it made her quite happy. I had never even seen these ornaments which made it extra special for me since I remember making them in the second grade 😂🤣😂 I loooooove you guys more than words can express. I'm very much looking forward to the next time I get to come back home to catch up 🛵💨🌌🗺️📍🧭🌏🇮🇳🪷🇳🇵❤️‍🔥🎉 (at Knoxville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoSa83LO0pP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words... Whoever "they" are just miiiight be right 📸🌌❤️‍🔥 I got the opportunity to stay up all night with my great aunt Susie looking at a literal basket case of family photos. It was so great to hear her thoughts and perspective on these pictures as she had actually met and knew most of these kinfolk in real life 🔥🌠🤗 Here are a few of my favorite Allen family photos and some of their backstory in no particular order: 1️⃣ My grandpa (Paw) in the Air Force sometime in the early 50s. Never saw this photo of him before but love it! Paw was a huge inspiration for me as a young man with aviation, motorcycles, and his love for life in our blood 💓 2️⃣ My great-grandfather (Poppie) sometime in the early twenties looking ever so suave & dapper 👌 3️⃣ Poppie at 14 years old in 1918 out on the farm here in East Tennessee with his two mules 🐴👨‍🌾🐴 4️⃣ Meemaw my great grandmother ever looking quite gorgeous in the early twenties ❣️ 5️⃣ My great great grandfather (Meemaw's dad) in 1917 driving the fire engine at station #8 here in Knoxville where he worked for many years 🧑‍🚒🚒🧯 6️⃣ A hand drawn portrait of George Scott Allen my great-great-grandfather (Poppies dad) in 1892. He was a 6 ft 2 Irishman with red hair & blue eyes. He worked at a still functioning fish hatchery here in East Tennessee (which I will go visit soon 🙏😀🐟💜) 7️⃣ A hand-drawn portrait of my great-great-grandmother (Poppies mom) who had poppies 6 bothers in secession then his five sisters in secession 🤯 8️⃣ By far the oldest picture in this collection taken in 1888 of my great-great-great-grandmother/father (Meemaw's grandparents) Meemaw's grandma was pregnant with her mother in this photo. Sadly her mom died 3 months after granny Dalton was born. The family brought in a wet nurse who was Cherokee which was quite racy for that time 🫠💚🤱 9️⃣ Paw out in Texas in the 50s at a tent revival wearing his cowboy boots 🤠 🔟 Poppie on his way to work as a locomotive engineer here in Knoxville Tennessee in the 1930s 🚂💨🛤️🧡🌌🚀 Hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane as much as I did y'all 💙💛💙💛💙💛 (at Knoxville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5SIoXrCoM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Got to hang out with my cousin Jen & her doggos 🐕‍🦺🐾🐕💜 Had a blast hanging out with my cousin fixing some projects around the house and snuggling these pups 🤣❤️‍🔥🐶🕺🌌 Even got the opportunity to get her lunar landing module... Uuuum I mean Saab car running 🙈🤣🚀 It's insane to me how complex they made every single little piece of this car. It literally boggles my mind to think about how this company could even turn a profit selling these over engineered vehicles who have just over 3 million hours of engineering put into how just the tilt steering wheel functions 🤯🛞💸 Don't get me wrong I appreciate all the thought that went into each and every single little piece of these ridiculous cars. That said I'm not a history professor who smokes a pipe wearing a tweed jacket in my mid-50s dating one of my students soooo I don't know if I'm capable or competent enough to drive this particular automobile 🚗💨🔥🧿😛 I loved playing with these doggies. I think it's safe to say they're getting more than enough food and loooove... Spoiled little bastards haha buuut that's why we love 'em! Piper will not sleep unless she's wrapped up in a blanket getting them dogs nuggles 🌭🤗💝 Before I left Jen's she gave me Uncle Wally's old knife which really meant a lot. This was his daily driver blade that was in his pocket for a few decades up until the day he died a few years ago and now it will be accompanying me as we go around the world. We both thought that Walt would enjoy that memory 🌌🗡️🗺️📍🧭🤘🌏🥳 After an ever so quick stop at a local gunsmith we got some new hardware to put this ole knife back together. After taking her apart, cleaning, oiling her up, and installing all the new hardware this bad girl is dialed in and ready for the open road 🛣️🤙🎆🫠 Little things like this always seem to make the biggest difference in my experience... At the end of the day all we are is memories anyways soooooo we might as well enjoy the ride y'all 🌠❣️🌄🪬☯️ (at Knoxville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn2ryo1rtxf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Rocky Top will always be home sweet home to meeeee 🌄🧡🌌 Got to hang out with Mama Merkus, Brianoooo, Cissy Girl, Monkituuude and his girlfriend for a few days up in the cabin looking over Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge ❤️‍🔥🕺🌠 We had a blast hiking, feasting, and catching up for the better part of a week in their B-E-A-utiful hilltop cabin ☮️🔥🎉🗻 We got to teach these kiddos that family means nothing when it comes to the Uno table... Here's ya about seven "Draw Fours" thrown down on top of each other bay-beeeee 😂🤯🤣🃏💩 Every night we played a different game including one that Cissy brought with her up to the cabin which had these crazy little wooden blocks with different colors and shapes on them. You had to align them in a certain order but she was not able to actually see said shapes & colors untiiiil we brought out my handy dandy headlight which was a literal game changer 💡🔦💪😛🫠 We got to go down the mountain & hang out in Gatlinburg feasting on some Best Italian and living large in Pigeon Forge while doing some moonshine tastings 🚀🎆😈 Even got to go out and do some hiking on a beautiful afternoon as the sun was going down and the moon was coming up 🌜⛰️🚶💨💜 This was about the perfect way to start off a New Year y'all. Good times with countless laughs and fantastic memories made 🥳💗💯 (at Knoxville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnxhsooLiDP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Made it to Naaaash-Vegas 🎉🔥🥳 Had an awesome time celebrating New years with my Aunt Glenda Uncle Tom and of course all my cousins ♾️🌠❤️‍🔥🎆 We got to head downtown to see the concerts which were televised all over the USA for New Year's. They said there were over 200,000 people down here aaaaand you know something.... I believe it 🙈🤯 After enjoying all the chaos shoulder to shoulder with our fellow concert goers we decided to head back to the Nashville Nest and enjoy the New Year's fireworks from the balcony. These giant balls of fire explode almost eye level since they're launched from the state capitol building parking lot just across the street from these lovely little condos 😛👌🫠🌌 My aunt Glenda was good enough to take us all to see the Broadway musical "Elf" the next day. I genuinely enjoyed the time with all the family and appreciated the arts even if it was a bit over the top with the Christmas shenanigans and whatnot ☃️🎁🎶🎅🦌🛷 A few days later I got to hang out with Laura and Anthony. We literally feasted like sultans and spent all night catching up and busting jokes. Antoine was even good enough to crank up a few guitars and lay down some new tunes he is working on while we were kicked back on the couches 🎸🎵👨‍🎤 This is the stuff that memories are made of right here y'all. Cheap laughs and good times making memories with the fam 🤙🧿🔥☮️ (at Nashville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnukREIuIeS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Made it out of Oklahoma into Mississippi in the Cheez Devil 🚗💨🧀😈🎉🫠🌌🚀🔥 Came just south of Memphis Tennessee to see my aunts, uncles, and cousins for a few days! My little cousins made me my late Christmas present which was a suuuuper cool purple coffee mug with my name " Nate The Nomad" engraved into 💜🥳🤘 I was also gifted a beautiful love letter handcrafted by my little cousins which made its way into the 3 cylinder dream machine taped on the door for some added love every time I jump in this bad girl ❤️‍🔥💪🙂 It was super cool getting to see their craft room and all the bits and pieces they have to make all these crazy projects come to life 👌☮️🤙 The winds were crazy strong (45 to 60 MPH gusts) as I left Oklahoma City pretty laaaate in the day. Due to these absolutely brutal winds I was barely able to get 47 miles to the gallon out of this beautiful 31-year-old all aluminum block all aluminum ahead 3 cylinder street legal go-kart 🙈🤩😂🤯😛 As I was leaving Oklahoma City I rolled over 777.7 on my odometer which I took as a good omen for the trip and my notion to start heading east 🌠🙏🖤🗺️📍🧭♾️🇮🇳🪷🇳🇵🌏🤠 Thrilled I got some time with this part of the family finally. Honestly we just had a blast catching up all night and busting jokes for a few days 💛💙💛💙 (at South Haven, Mississippi) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnr5mYMrE87/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Thaaaaaanks Oklahoma City! You've been great!!! I've been Nate. Catch you next time 🚀🌌❤️‍🔥 Finally it's time to get back on the road for a few years. The night before I left we had a super small ultra last minute get together with a bunch of great friends enjoying my favorite pizza at @empireslicehouse You guys are what make me call Oklahoma City home & I'm thankful for every minute we get to spend together when I'm actually in town 🤘🤠💜 After feasting like sultans on the most badass Pizza on the planet I spent the rest of the night and the beginning of the wee hours of the morning in the shop tuning up the Cheez Devil 🚗💨🧀😈🎉🫠 Topped off the oil ✅ Fix the rear trunk latch ✅ Installed new brake lights ✅ Gave the whole car a good once over and put a few uga-dugas on a couple of loose nuts and bolts ✅ Tried fixing the cruise control from the Honda goldwing motorcycle with only limited results ✅ Most importantly installed the flux capacitor with warp speed drive 😂🤣😂😛 The flux capacitor goes where the radio used to be. When my car got vandalized last year they stole the radio as well as pretty much everything else out of the car so at least now I'm not staring at a giant empty hole but something that instead makes me smile 🙃🙂🙃 I tried to purchase another cruise control replacement unit from a guy on Facebook marketplace... Sent him the money via PayPal & he never sent the cruise control 💔 Apparently there's nothing Facebook marketplace or PayPal can do about this transaction which to me is completely ridiculous since PayPal charges you 3% to send this digital money for no apparent reason... Trying to not go on a rant here but this is literally the whole reason why PayPal was invented & now it doesn't even function in it's original manner. Go ahead & shut down the company and suck start a shotgun for us guys 🤷 Anywho I digress... The metrosexual is in rare form and feeling good as she's heading east 🗺️📍🧭🎉 Thrilled I got to have so much time last year with my little brother & his family as well as all my other great friends here in Oklahoma City. 2022 was an absolute shit show but the redeeming value was the time spent with y'all 🌠 (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpNl7BLhSe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A financial education is simply something that will never be taught in a government funded institution as the government they themselves do not know how to properly manage a country's budget let alone their own personal finances 🌌🙈💸 I got the opportunity to volunteer with a great organization in Oklahoma City called @ja_oklahoma who work with highschool kids who volunteer to come learn about budgeting & taking their personal finances to the next level 🔥🎉💪 I got to work with 3 kiddos who were freshmen & they were awesome! Two of which were figuring out what they want to do with their lives & we had some great conversation there. The other already knew she wanted to be a hair stylist & beautician. We got to talk about different ways she could go to school absolutely free here in OKC with grants & hard work 🚀💙🤘 This organization really goes above & beyond the call of duty showing these youngsters how to work with money as an adult & what that looks like by actually going to different stations where you have budgeted your money to make purchases with your debit card at the different "stores" 🏦💙💵🧡🏬💛🌮💙🍟💚🍩🔀🧠 The best way I know how to describe this all morning long highschool program is a real life version of Robert Kiyosaki's "Cash Flow" game. The emphasis was not really getting out of the rat race but more understanding how much money you earn & how much money you can spend. Even this is a huge step in the right direction as a 14-year-old since most parents are not talking about money & finances with their lil ones. Even if they are it might be like the blind leading the blind like it was for me as a kid 🙈 It was interesting to see that local companies paid their employees to take the day "off" to come work with these kids. I was the only one here as an entrepreneur & business owner. That definitely made it fun to see the different perspectives from a W-2 employee compared to a business person 🌠🤙💞 Glad I got to be a small part of this awesome organization & look forward to doing more work with these guys when I return back to the USA after traveling for the next 3 or 4 years through Asia on a motorcycle 🛵💨🗺️📍🧭🌏🇮🇳🪷🇳🇵❤️‍🔥 (at Francis Tuttle Technology Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnm1KivPeJn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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If you can't find shoes in the shoe store then briiiing the shoe store to you 📬🚀👟🙈 When you are a 6'5 giant shoes can be quite difficult to come across... I went to four different stores on the hunt for size 14 or 15 (48-51 EU) shoes and was immediately disappointed which was reminiscent to my weekends back in middle school being obliterated trying to find shoes for hours upon endless hours 💔⏳😂🤣 I read the book "Delivering Happiness" by Tony Shay about a decade ago for the first time. He created a shoe company with the sole focus of customer service and company culture... This resonated with me on many levels 🌌❣️💪 Tony's first company he created was ultimately sold for quite a bit of dough buuuut over the years he regretted and resented being a part of that first company as it lost its original culture as more and more people were brought in quickly instead of diligently who were not the right fit 🧩 With his secondary company Zappos which was ultimately bought by Amazon for one of the largest acquisition prices ever at the time his whole goal was to create an amazing company culture with spectacular customer service... At the end of the day this is what created value because ultimately it did not matter what they were selling as long as they were going above and beyond the call of duty. Even as boring and bland as selling shoes might be they found a way to make it fun wacky and amazing 🌠 Today here we are looking at over $2,800 worth of shoes which were delivered to the house only to be returned a few days later after trying them on. Free shipping both ways and customer service representatives who are more than happy to go above and beyond the call of duty. I recommend @Zappos 💯 (I am not sponsored or associated with them in any way) I like to support companies that I aligne with 🤘 Looking to get back on the road soon I needed to replace my last pair of hiking shoes which had touched three continents, covered thousands of miles, and were held together with Romanian super glue 👨‍🔧🗺️📍🌍🧭 I found the perfect pair of hiking sandals and just today ordered my next pair of hiking shoes which will grace yet another hemisphere 🌐🚶‍♂️💨⛰️🇮🇳🇳🇵 (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cncw6icPycl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Looking for the next adventure hog 🛵💨🌠🇮🇳🪷🇳🇵🌌 Since it's iiiiincredibly expensive to ship a motorcycle to Asia at the moment I have decided to acquire yet another motorcycle in another hemisphere to go exploring with for the next year or 2 🤘🤠 Sadly there are not many awesome moto options on the table in the East surprisingly enough.... After days & days of research I finally compiled the top 4 bikes which are available & suitable for adventure riding. These motorcycles are not overly impressive or exciting but one could describe them as adequate 🙈 Top of the list for me- The KTM 390 Adventure that was fiiiinally available to ride here Oklahoma City where I call home after waiting for one to come in stock for months 🤷 The 390 is definitely on top of the pile for a decent & available motorcycle on the other side of the planet. It's honestly nothing really special but it'll get the job done. Definitely seems to be a nice little piece of moto equipment. Truly trying not to bad mouth the bike, just sharing my thoughts and opinions on the little 390 🤓 Also got to ride: Ducati 800 Scrambler which was slow & unimpressive 💔 BMW GS 310 which is actually faster than a 390 to 50 mph but pretty limited after that 🤦 Honda CB500X which was pretty surprising that it's actually not a bad machine. Just a bit heavier than 390 🫠 What are you guys doing for tool tubes on these 390s? Looks like it would be difficult to put the tools in front of the engine behind the front wheel since the exhaust is there and there's not much of a skid plate (which I plan on changing almost immediately when I buy my bike over in Asia) I'm thinking a big fat nasty aluminum skid plate is job number one on this 390 machine since it has super limited ground clearance 🤣🥳🔥 Pictures & recommendations of your tool tube locations & ADV setups are super appreciated! Trying to wrap my mind around a good way to carry some tools and spare parts on the bike. My original plan was to bring a 4-in PVC lockable tool tube that's waterproof with everything needed to keep the bike on the trail but does not look like that will be possible with the location of the exhaust and whatnot 🙈💔🤔 (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnac4DBLACZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Freeeeezing cold Scottish festival 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃🇬🇧🧊☃️❄️ One thing I've learned about the bagpipes while hanging out with my best buddy AK is these bastards are pretty temperamental... Especially when it comes to humidity and temperature 🙈😂😭🤣 We came out midday to support these crazy athletes who were out here making the magic happen tossing logs, stones, and hay bales 💪 I can report back there's only one way to stay warm on these cold Oklahoma afternoons y'all... Fire up the bagpipes and keep moving 🔥🎉🥳 I discovered the car of the future rusting out in the field behind where these games were being hosted. Honestly I will say this Studebaker resting and making its way back to Babylon slowly year after year is still a more beautiful car than anything that's been produced in the last few decades by either foreign and domestic manufacturers 😛 Probably at some point when I'm done traveling full time in the next decade I'll buy a garage and start restoring derelicts like this ole girl keeping their well worn & earned patina all the whiiiile shoehorning in some good old-fashioned updated American muscle under the hood 🚗💨🤘 Until then I will stare longingly at these antique autos as they rust ever more returning back to nature from once they came 🌌💜🚀❤️‍🔥 (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnYXvy1NOsF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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My boy Gregory's Pebble Beach ready 89 Metro 🚗💨🔥👌 I don't know who was more excited about this Geo photo shoot down in the Plaza District of OKC... Gregorio or myself 🤣🙈🤣 (It was meeeee 😛😂🤣) What I really wanted to do was bring together the Cheez Devil and Gregory's Ole Blue miiiint condition three cylinder all aluminum block, all aluminum head, all aluminum engine mount G-10 3 cylinder dream machine for a bomb ass photo session buuuut sadly we never coordinated both cars being in the same place at the same time 💔 It was super interesting to see the difference between Greg's 1989 Metro and my 1992. His dashboard is pretty boss and his seat belts aren't garbage 🥀💀⚰️😛 Sadly the only photo I have of these two mile crushing economy machines together was at night lit up with some beautiful halogen headlights from my little brothers Toyota SUV 💡🔦🕯️🙈 We got to go play some chess and pool all night while talking about the differences between these phenomenal lil dream machines ♟️🎱👨‍🔧🧰🌌🤘 (at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnV3F-PNcTv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=