The Adventures of Bren and Sven

DMV

Monday (Prior to Labor Day) : I told myself that I would wake up early enough to get down to the local DMV office before it opens and the endless line of monotonous boredom and hopelessness develops. The only problem with this is Sven likes his sleep and I didn’t get to bed at a decent hour. So the eight o’clock hour rolls around and I unwillingly decide to to get my lazy ass out of bed. I come to the conclusion that my local office will not due since it tends to always be busy. Actually busy is...

The Final Day

Sven here, taking over for Day 2 of our MSP (Motorcycle Safely Program) experience. I was feeling mighty sore that morning. I learned that I shouldn’t have shaved my head extra short right before spending an afternoon in Corona in mid-August… lesson learned. But thankfully day two started at 6am and was fairly cool and overcast. With our morning coffee in hand, things became a tad more tolerable and promising. It was business as usual once the instructors and bikes were ready to go. We conduc...

Day One

The class consisted of a mix of 12 experienced and novice riders, all led by a very charismatic and experienced instructor named, “Doc” (yes, he is a Doctor).  Now, I will jump through the class section rather quickly because even though it is important, it is boring as hell, and all I want to do is get a vibrating engine between my legs… preferably with two wheels and handle bars attached to it. So the class; well it consisted of relatively recently made movies (not the outdated ones staring wa...