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09/27/2026

You might expect to have to squeeze your motorcycle into some tight places when you’re traveling.

I’ve wedged Tuskarossa onto ship decks, through alleyways, into entryways, and even hotel lobbies.

I’ve never had to squeeze her through the fence and into the backyard of an Airbnb before.

It was a tight bit of maneuvering, and it left me feeling a bit like a prisoner—although I always feel chained to my computer during our workdays between travel segments.

At least, there was no question about how easy it is to disconnect my Lone Rider MotoPanniers—and Greg’s MotoBags.

So, we trimmed Tuskarossa and Tenderfoot a bit at the hips and squeezed them right through the 36-inch-wide gate!

🧳 Motorcycle luggage by Lone Rider - Adventure Motorcycle Equipment

🐕 Whimsy’s carrier by K9 Moto Cockpit

🐾 Whimsy’s wardrobe by RUFFLY

🎶 On To Something Good by Strangelove
SyncID: MB01ISBHBROAGC9

09/23/2026

THIS IS WHIMSY.

Whimsy was never part of the plan.

When we set off to ride around the world, Moxie was my copilot and had been for many years.

But this journey threw a hard bend and a dark tunnel in my road when I lost Moxie suddenly and unexpectedly after we reached the Arctic Ocean together.

It wasn’t easy starting over or finding joy again—but Whimsy is how I did.

📖 Read about my extraordinary journey with Moxie, how we suddenly lost her, and how puppy Whimsy came to join our hearts and pack—preorder My Heart Is Home with You now! Preorder here: https://a.co/d/02shEspE

🏍️ Whimsy rides in her K9 Moto Cockpit

🐾 Whimsy’s wardrobe by RUFFLY

· Motorcycle: Triumph Motorcycles
· Luggage: Lone Rider - Adventure Motorcycle Equipment
· Tires: Motoz Tyres
· Helmet: NEXX Helmets
· Communication: Cardo Systems
· Protection: Alpinestars
· Goggles: Rex Specs
· Cameras: DJI
· Mount: QUAD LOCK
· Tent: Near Zero Outdoor Gear

🎶 Brand New by Summer Kennedy
SyncID: MB012QRRRKKDAPI

ARVADA.This is how I know we are in our right place.Whimsy can bark, and no one is bothered by it. Better still, there i...
09/21/2026

ARVADA.

This is how I know we are in our right place.

Whimsy can bark, and no one is bothered by it. Better still, there isn’t another house or yard with a dog to hear her.

We are a mile from Lonetree Ranch and half a mile from the railroad tracks.

At scattered hours of the day and night, trains race across the Powder River Basin rail line. As one approaches the place where the lonely tarmac crosses the tracks, the conductor blows the horn, then blows it again. His cry is loud enough to raise the dead—the most beautiful ugly sound I’ve ever heard.

Whimsy has long since learned to respect a barbed-wire fence, which means she slips nimbly beneath it, leaving barely a wisp or trace of fur.

There is a particular smile Greg wears whenever he steps outside. It’s wider still when he returns from a morning run, sweat streaking his cheeks while Whimsy pants gamely beside him. They have run for miles among the deer and antelope.

“Did she try to chase any of them?” I ask.

“Of course she did,” he grins crookedly, “but I called her right back, so no animals were, you know, stressed or traumatized.”

The wind arrives strong and sudden here. Thunderstorms unfurl along the skyline like a black flag, dumping rain or hail as they sail toward the far horizon.

The cows seem unfazed. The horses shake droplets from their manes.

There are two lone Tigers here, too—our motorcycles. They bound over gravel, then lean and doze in the shade of the cabin.

In the calm evenings, the sun is a branding iron. It sears into the flesh of these sweeping hills, then cools into blue night. The hares and toads appear, and the foxes and coyotes prowl.

The day’s long work is done, so we sit and watch this world go around.

Then I open the door and call Whimsy inside for dinner.

09/18/2026

This excerpt is from what I felt was one of the most heartwarming chapters to write in “My Heart Is Home with You”.

It comes after the darkest period of injury and loss in our lives and a season of healing afterward that I think of and describe as ‘wintering’.

During and after those sad days, I worried that maybe Whimsy was joining us too soon before my heart was ready to love again.

My heart wasn’t healed whole yet, but she was a blessing and enormous source of happiness nevertheless.

The reason is part of what I learned from that awful experience of losing Moxie:

“The only thing worse than losing your dog is not having one around to share all your love with.” – page 296

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🏍️ Whimsy rides in her RUFFLY’s K9 Moto Cockpit

🐾 Whimsy’s wardrobe by RUFFLY

🎶 Someone by Hills x Hills
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09/09/2026

If you’re new here, then there’s something important you should know…

I’ve written a book!

It’s called “My Heart Is Home with You” and it’s all about how our dogs—Moxie and Whimsy—changed our lives.

It’s about how we started RUFFLY, created the K9 Moto Cockpit, and then launched this around-the-world journey to fundraise $100,000 for Girl Up.

It follows our journey up to the Arctic Ocean, across the Darién Gap, and down to the bottom of South America.

It also shares the low points and personal tragedies like when we nearly when bankrupt, when Greg was struck by a bus, and how we suddenly lost Moxie after a routine surgery.

Then, Whimsy joins our pack and we find new joy and incredible moments of home together.

“My Heart Is Home with You” is about leaping into adventure, taking big gambles, licking your wounds, and leaping in again.

It publishes on December 1st, which means there’s still a few months to wait, but here’s the thing:

Preorders determine so much about how widely a book gets shared. So, please help us share the story by ordering your copy now!

Order here: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSGNJY32/ ⭐️⭐️⭐️

🏍️ Whimsy rides in her K9 Moto Cockpit

🐾 Whimsy’s wardrobe by RUFFLY

· Motorcycle: Triumph Motorcycles
· Luggage: Lone Rider - Adventure Motorcycle Equipment
· Tires: Motoz Tyres
· Helmet: NEXX Helmets
· Communication: Cardo Systems
· Protection: Alpinestars
· Goggles: Rex Specs
· Cameras: DJI
· Mount: QUAD LOCK

09/07/2026

You might notice a particular problem if you ever watch those epic fantasy movies.

There are wonderfully artistic scenes of towering towers and mountainous mountains and even sometimes islands floating among the clouds.

But all that CGI might make you feel like our own puny mountains and stumpy towers and earth-bound islands are rather unremarkable in comparison.

It’s not true and never will be—at least not until you can watch a movie with all your five senses—but it might sometimes feel that way.

But not when you visit Devils Tower in eastern Wyoming.

For that matter, no single part of Wyoming that I visited underwhelms.

Besides, where else will you get rained on when there’s a clear blue sky overhead? Or where that blue sky can become a dark thunderstorm with gale-force winds in a few minutes.

So, yeah, I’d match Wyoming against Narnia, Middle Earth, and Avatar’s Pandora any day.

🏍️ Whimsy rides in her K9 Moto Cockpit

🐾 Whimsy’s wardrobe by RUFFLY

· Motorcycle: Triumph Motorcycles
· Luggage: Lone Rider - Adventure Motorcycle Equipment
· Tires: Motoz Tyres
· Helmet: NEXX Helmets
· Communication: Cardo Systems
· Protection: Alpinestars
· Goggles: Rex Specs
· Cameras: DJI
· Mount: QUAD LOCK

🎶 Canyonlands by Voyageur
SyncID: MB01DY9FFGGKVK1

09/03/2026

I’m incredibly proud of the obedience training we’ve instilled in Whimsy.

She has excellent recall and tends to stick close by my side—especially around meal times.

But she’s also a curious shepherd with a strong prey drive, which means I still worry about her wandering off and getting into trouble.

That’s why the Tractive tracker on her collar gives me so much peace of mind—and lets me give her more freedom.

At each new Airbnb, I can set up a virtual fence so I can keep an eye on her and rein her in if she starts wandering too far.

Our particular lifestyle also means I’ve rarely had to leave Whimsy home alone. That’s wonderful, but it also means she’s not as accustomed to being left on her own as some dogs.

So when I do leave her at an Airbnb while I run errands, I feel much better knowing I can check her location and keep an eye on her activity and health stats.

For me, it’s all about giving Whimsy as much freedom and stimulation as possible while minimizing my own stress and worry.

Tractive helps me do that, which makes it an essential part of our tool kit.

⭐️ Use GORUFFLY40 for 40% off your Tractive tracker.

🏍️ Whimsy rides in her K9 Moto Cockpit�🐾 Whimsy’s wardrobe by RUFFLY

09/02/2026

I feel a nagging sense of FOMO nearly every time I see a sign posted for a scenic outlook.

This feeling is worse still when I’m riding through someplace as truly breathtaking as Badlands National Park in South Dakota where the alien scene changes and morphs with each mile.

But traveling by motorcycle doesn’t lend to frequent stops, especially where there’s a helmet, gloves, and Whimsy’s goggles to remove and replace at each one.

So I pick my scenic outlook stops pretty carefully, and make sure to get the feeding, bathroom, and the most scenic views at every one.

But I also try to remind myself of something else, which is special and unique to visiting these extraordinary places by motorcycle.

The experience of the ride itself and your view from the dome of a helmet is more extraordinary and scenic than most of the outlooks.

That goes doubly for when you pitch your tent on the grasslands just outside the national park.

🏍️ Whimsy rides in her K9 Moto Cockpit

🐾 Whimsy’s wardrobe by RUFFLY

· Motorcycle: Triumph Motorcycles
· Luggage: Lone Rider - Adventure Motorcycle Equipment
· Tires: Motoz Tyres
· Helmet: NEXX Helmets
· Communication: Cardo Systems
· Protection: Alpinestars
· Goggles: Rex Specs
· Cameras: DJI
· Mount: QUAD LOCK

🎶 Canyonlands by Voyageur
SyncID: MB01DY9FFGGKVK1

CROCODILES.I didn’t hit the ground running.First, I had to find my stride—and my voice. And that is not easy to do.The f...
08/28/2026

CROCODILES.

I didn’t hit the ground running.

First, I had to find my stride—and my voice. And that is not easy to do.

The first glimmer happened while I volunteered in Ghana. I brought a young girl named Lizzy to a wildlife sanctuary, and together we breathtakingly held a hungry crocodile by the tail.

Other flickers of sunlight lit my path, but the clouds only parted when Moxie and Whimsy entered my life. I started RUFFLY to outfit them, and we leapt into this journey to live extraordinary together.

Four incredible years later, we’ve dipped paws in the Arctic Ocean, trekked across the Darién Gap, reached the tail tip of South America—and soon we cross to Africa.

Each moment has felt like holding that crocodile by the tail.

Moxie and Whimsy, my motorcycle Tuskarossa, and my wonderfully supportive husband have made it possible—and so has one other extraordinary young woman.

Her name is Graciela.

She began by tagging and packaging collars six years ago. Today, she manages our entire RUFFLY operation of weavers, tailors, saddlemakers, and metalworkers in Guatemala.

She doesn’t hold the crocodile by the tail. Every day, she wrestles it to the ground and pins it down.

A couple of years ago, I crashed three times on a nail-scratch of road in Nicaragua. While we rested beside a stream, a group of local kids gathered around. When I rose to put my helmet on, the youngest fox cub asked if she could sit on Tuskarossa’s saddle with Whimsy.

Lizzy in Ghana. Graciela in Guatemala. That little girl in Nicaragua. The young me in Canada.

They—and so many other girls and young women—are why this journey is a $100,000 fundraiser for Girl Up.

Will they see white Whimsy on purple Tuskarossa and dream of traveling around the world on a motorcycle?

Probably not.

But when their own moment of inspiration strikes, and it hinges on having the Moxie and Whimsy to ante up, I hope maybe they’ll remember us and GoRUFFLY.

More importantly, they’ll have Girl Up to fight in their corner.
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“My Heart Is Home with You” tells the story and purpose behind this journey.

Please preorder your copy. Proceeds support our $100,000 Girl Up fundraiser. www.goruffly.com/world-adventure

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