Never got to Canada, love intervened.

I had been all the way around the world, lived in Taiwan and Brazil (my father's job took us), but had never been to Canada nor Mexico until this summer.  My bride of 29 years and I took two days to ride the motorcycle in my profile pic mostly along Lake Erie to Niagara Falls, spent four days there, then two days to ride back around our anniversary.  Ontario is beautiful, and the people were very friendly when we ventured north from Niagara Falls one day to visit some wineries, breweries, and distilleries.

I ride year-round.  I put grip heaters on a couple years ago this fall, and those have made a huge difference.  For comparison, in the last year, I have driven my truck a grand total of 1000 miles--a lot of that was because I had the bike in the shop a couple different times for new tires, a recall, then I took a couple weeks to get around to replacing the clutch cable that broke on a local group ride (30 miles from home...).  In that same year, I think I've put about 7000 miles on the bike, and about 18,500 since I got it in May '21.  I even quit taking the direct route home from work so that I could get out of the traffic and onto some country roads for a bit of wind therapy.

Shiny side up, brother!