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Our first weekend motorcycle trip on my much loved Honda Magna happened in mid-April. It was a wonderful jaunt east from Seattle over the Cascade Mts., then south along the Yakima River Canyon, over another Cascade pass, and then steeply down to the awesome Columbia River gorge. From that junction when you turn east again, there is about an 85 mile stretch along the Washington side of the river that is spectacular in its beauty and also very isolated. There are almost no other vehicles around except the occasional trains that run east/west along the river there.
That weekend, the main melody of this song started floating around in my head and I got to work on it as soon as I returned home. The second real trip of the season was over Memorial Day Weekend – a 4 day run eastbound over the Cascades, through Idaho and over the Bitterroot Mts. into Montana. This time I had an mp3 of the new song in a close-to-finished state to listen to during the ride, and then work on a little in the evenings (have laptop, will travel!) When the weather is cooperating and all systems are “go”, motorcycling evokes such a feeling of flight – soaring, leaning, carving the turns - and an immense sense of freedom. This music tries to capture the best feelings of flying along the road.
A new little “Flip” video camera was added to the motorcycle gadgets toward the end of the ’08 riding season, and my travel passenger (Jodene) has started taking some great footage from the back of the bike. So I thought I’d try embedding a first motorcycling movie that includes scenes from: North Cascades Highway (WA); Yakima River Canyon Highway (WA); Lake Roosevelt (meaning the dammed up Columbia River) ferry crossing (WA); Columbia River Gorge (WA - and yes, the train engineer DID toot his whistle in response to my wave!); bridge crossing at Glen Canyon (UT); summit at Independence Pass (the very high Rockies of CO). Videography and movie making by Jodene, to the soundtrack of “MagnaFlight.” Special thanks as always to kassia for the many, many listens and helpful feedback along the way
****Warning – if you have any challenges with motion sickness, you should NOT watch this video – it’s pretty jiggly on a tiny little camera over bumpy roads, on a kinda fast moving motorcycle!
That weekend, the main melody of this song started floating around in my head and I got to work on it as soon as I returned home. The second real trip of the season was over Memorial Day Weekend – a 4 day run eastbound over the Cascades, through Idaho and over the Bitterroot Mts. into Montana. This time I had an mp3 of the new song in a close-to-finished state to listen to during the ride, and then work on a little in the evenings (have laptop, will travel!) When the weather is cooperating and all systems are “go”, motorcycling evokes such a feeling of flight – soaring, leaning, carving the turns - and an immense sense of freedom. This music tries to capture the best feelings of flying along the road.
A new little “Flip” video camera was added to the motorcycle gadgets toward the end of the ’08 riding season, and my travel passenger (Jodene) has started taking some great footage from the back of the bike. So I thought I’d try embedding a first motorcycling movie that includes scenes from: North Cascades Highway (WA); Yakima River Canyon Highway (WA); Lake Roosevelt (meaning the dammed up Columbia River) ferry crossing (WA); Columbia River Gorge (WA - and yes, the train engineer DID toot his whistle in response to my wave!); bridge crossing at Glen Canyon (UT); summit at Independence Pass (the very high Rockies of CO). Videography and movie making by Jodene, to the soundtrack of “MagnaFlight.” Special thanks as always to kassia for the many, many listens and helpful feedback along the way
****Warning – if you have any challenges with motion sickness, you should NOT watch this video – it’s pretty jiggly on a tiny little camera over bumpy roads, on a kinda fast moving motorcycle!
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