Episode 11 is up now!

Hello,

I just put Episode 11 up on the YouTube channel.

This episode will cover several days as I did not take as much footage during the rides for various reasons and also one of those days was a rest day off the bike and at the time I did not think about filming stuff off the bike as much.

Take a look, and if you want, like, comment, and maybe think about subscribing?  

Nothing else going on with the bikes right now, just got the Himalayan listed for sale this week, but so far not any interest.  I think my price might be a bit on the high end, but figured I would try it first, will lower it some next week.

Hopefully I will get the next few episodes done yet before the end of the year.

Have a great holiday!

Chris

New Video for the India Series is up!

Hello everyone,

Episode 10 of the India series is now live on YouTube.

This episode will cover the 2nd day travelling the Manali-Leh Highway from the overnight camp, up the Gata Loops, over 3 passes (reaching 17,500 feet / 5300 m) and finally arriving in Leh.

This was a long day of riding, and the footage was over 100Gb just for this day.  I have cut that down to tad over 30 minutes of video and images.

Will try to get the next few up over the next few weeks, should be about 5 more episodes to complete the trip.

Not much else going on.

Finally fixed the bike (battery was failing) and now I can get the Himalayan sold since I am just not riding it enough.

Till next time.

Chris

New video up today!

 Hello,

Yes, another video has been put up!

You can find Episode 9 on the You Tube channel now.

Not much else to say today, so will keep this one short!

Later

Chris

Another India video, and motorcycle problems.

Good evening readers.

I have done it again, another video has been completed.  It will go public tomorrow, but for those who read this blog you can read it now!

India Trip Episode 8

I think I have about 6-7 videos left in the series, so on track to complete it by end of the year, possibly sooner.

Let me know what you think in the comments of the video (and if you have not done so, like and subscribe to the channel).

You can also comment here as well if you prefer.

Not much else going on right now.  I am in the process of selling my Royal Enfield Himalayan as I just do not ride it enough to keep 2 bikes.  Will get it listed this weekend.

But my V-Strom is currently out of action and will not start, thinking either the starter or starter relay might be bad.  I have power, battery shows fully charged, I can hear all the normal sounds, lights and such on instrument cluster work, and when you try to start it make similar noise, but also a loud click and nothing happens.

Going to try troubleshooting it more on Sunday, cannot get it anywhere, so need to fix this one myself!

Till next time.

Chris

Next Episode of the India trip has gone live!

 Hey everyone.

Quick update that I got some more work done on the India video series and now Episode 7 has been posted on YouTube.

This day was probably the best day of riding on the whole trip, though a few others came close, this one just had the best combination of roads, views, and activities to make it a fun day, though if you read the trip blog you will see the day ended with some frustration for me, but no day is perfect!

I am going to continue working on the India trip for now, and if I get some time might try to put up at least 1 more Vietnam video in the meantime as well.

My main goal though is to complete the India trips by the end of the year I hope.  Then I can finish up the Vietnam trip before I move into several other trips that still need edited together.

I think there are at least 3 US trips I have footage for, 3 Europe trips for the bikes.  Also have 1 more concert video to do that was done on one of the Europe trips, and then a relaxing week on an island without a bike, but should be fun anyway.

Next trips are planned to start in summer 2026, but details are still being sorted, so will announce them when I know things, but hoping (really!) that I can have all the past videos done by then and can start putting stuff up in a more current fashion (like a few days or weeks after, not years!)

Till next time,

Chris

Another Video finally done!

Hello everyone.

I finally made myself sit down and get another video edited.

Episode 6 of the India trip is now on the YouTube Channel.

I think I am going to focus on the India trip for now and pause any more updates on the Vietnam trip as I want to get the older stuff done so I can clean up my source files as I am not keeping most of the footage I am not using as there is little need for it.

As for upcoming trips, things are on pause right now due to some other things I need to focus on right now, so currently no travel plans over the next 6-8 months, but then things should pick up again and if everything works out, will start getting more trips online.

I hope to finish up the India, Vietnam and several other videos before then, but time will tell if I can get all the backlog done before then.  Still have to write up the blogs for at least 3 trips as well.

I am going to also start working on trying to move this content to my own domain, but that will probably take longer than I expect, so just stay tuned on that one.  :)

Not much else going on right now, just working on those other concerns and projects along with working my normal job as well.

Drop me a line or go watch, like and subscribe to the YouTube channel to see new updates as they come out.

Till next time

Chris

More Videos finally.

Hello everyone.

So took a short break from the video work over the last 2 months.

1st I was getting prepared and then taking a 10 day trip to Europe to attend a concert and then spend a week riding around central Europe on a rented bike.

Will be awhile before any of that gets written up or the video put up as I am really trying to get the stuff from previous years done first.

When I returned I spend the next 2 weeks under the weather with Bronchitis thanks to spending 3 days riding in the rain in temperatures not too far above freezing!  Not too much fun.

Then was busy with work and personal stuff for a bit, but have finally been able to get some time to start back up with the videos.  Still working on both the India and Vietnam trips, will alternate back and forth with them.

With that said, today episode 5 of the 2022 India trip has been put online, you can find it here:

https://youtu.be/-AEavltfGTU

Not too exciting as I again as I failed to record in many places that would have made it more fun, but still gives you the idea of the days ride and stops.

Hopefully will have the next Vietnam video up in 1 - 2 weeks (I have another video project I need to work on for someone else, so might delay things some.)

Till next time.

Video Updates - Finally getting some work done!

 Hello everyone.

Been a few months, so wanted to add another update to this site tonight.

I have been working quite a bit over the last month or so to get video from the Vietnam/Laos trip edited and posted online.  I put up the 5th episode tonight on the YouTube channel (will link it at the end).  I also went back and re-cut the 1st episode of the 2022 India trip and have now completed 4 episodes of that ride as well.

Getting faster at putting them together and will continue to work through the next several months to hopefully complete the videos for those trips.

I will be travelling again by motorcycle this spring in Europe, so will be doing more video there as well.

I still have the UK trip and several AZ and CA trips to get edited as well, and the Maldives trip, though that has nothing to do with motorcycles :)

Probably be end of 2025 before most of that gets done, depending on how much time I can carve out for video work with all the other projects I have going on.

I am going to be starting my sell off of much of my collections and other junk this summer, and hopefully can complete much of that by early 2026. 

My current plans are to complete the sell off and leave on my full time riding in early 2027, though depending on several factors and events, I may find myself pushing that up a year to 2026.

But for now enjoy the smaller trips on YouTube and the blogs for those trips as well.

YouTube Channel:  Wandering Wyvern

Blogs:

2022 India Trip

2024 Vietnam-Laos Trip

Long Overdue update.

Hello,

So yeah, still not too good at keeping this updated.  In the last year or so I have done several small rides around the area.

I finally put a good set of 50/50 tires on the V-strom in February, so decided to take it out on a good off pavement ride in the mountains south of Prescott Arizona.  Rode from Bumblebee up to Crown King and down the old Senator Highway to Prescott which was an amazing, but also insanely rough ride. Probably more than the bike was ready for, thankful for the bash plate, hit it good several times going over rocky steps down, and even up some hills.

In May I rode twice out to California for different events, once to Palm Springs and another to Burbank.  Both times took a more scenic route home on back highways.  Both trips were around 1000 miles each.

I did the usual ride up to flagstaff in May to go camping at the Overland Expo and first time I got to use my new tent (the old one had failed me miserably the year before at Expo.)  I picked up a Lone Rider ADV tent and have to say I am really liking it.  While at Expo I picked up a new and more compact air mattress and inflating bag from Big Agnes and later I picked up a new sleeping bag from Exped off the internet.

I then took a trip to the UK to attend the Adventure Bike Rider Festival in June.  Rented a BMW GS750 on the edge of London, then rode up to the estate that the event occurs on.  Spent 3 nights camping there enjoying the talks, music and hanging out with several people I had met at other events in the past and meeting new people who had done some amazing things.

After the festival I then took a short ride over to Wales and stopped in Llangollen for 2 nights.  I rode from there to the coast to visit Caernarfon Castle, then out to Angelsey to visit a museum, then along the coast and back to the hotel, mostly in the rain.  

Next day I left and headed south into the interior to visit the highest waterfall in Wales, and then down and along the western coast to the southwest corner for a nights stay in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. 

From there I headed back into England and hit up another small museum and then stopped at Stonehenge before returning the bike to the shop near London and then spent the evening near the airport as I had early an flight next day.

And to finish out the riding year, I spent 4 weeks in Vietnam and Laos riding almost 2000 miles around with a group of people that included a few from the India trip again.  Great time and also had about 10 days of time on my own where I rented another bike for a day trip, but then did mostly day trips in cars and boats.

I will be putting up separate blogs for many of those trips and of course still have tons of video going all the way back to the India trip in 2022 I really need to start working on (running out of room on the network to store stuff LOL).

I will be getting the Vietnam trip up first here in the next few weeks, its a big one, 128 pages of text that I have to get formatted and matched up with photos and some video perhaps.  Will update here again when some of that stuff is done.

Will try to get some more riding after the first of the year, take the Himalayan out a few more times, but thinking I may end up selling it later next year, just not using it enough to bother keeping two bikes, and might even look at trading the V-strom for a different bike, see if I can find something that does the great job the V-strom 650 has, but fix the view weaknesses it has.

Maybe see you out there one of these days!

Till then.

Updates! (Finally)

Hello everyone.

So been remiss again in keeping this blog updated, though have been doing a few things related to this project.

This entry will be a list of updates to various things over the last 9 months, but just a quick summary.

Personal Health:

Upon my return from India, my gym had for some reason closed its doors.  I have still not found another good option and not been too good at working out at home.  I also started to eat out quite often again, so those two things combined have caused me to gain back 30 of the 55 pounds I had lost in 2021/2022.

I am starting again on fixing that, so will keep you updated.

Bike Updates:

On the motorbike front a few things have happened. 

To start, I bought a 2nd motorcycle in October of 2022.  I enjoyed the Royal Enfield Himalayan we rode in India so much that I decided to buy one for use here.  Was looking at a new model, but then a friend of a friend had a used one for sell.  So bought his 2019 model with only 900 miles on it, so practically a new bike still.  Had to get the fluids changed and a few adjustments made, but otherwise ready to go!

With the Suzuki, I did manage last year to get the crash bars installed and the luggage rack installed.  Also installed a mounting bracket above the instrument cluster to put the GPS on and room for other items if need.

I put a wrap on the windscreen to completely cover it, helps to shield the mounted electronics from sun, and the window was getting dinged up from rocks and bugs, and really do not need to look through it anyway, just there to deflect the wind some to help when riding.

This last week I finally got the luggage for the bike as well.  So now it is equipped with a new tank bag (old bag I bought to take to India already fell apart), rear pannier bags, a new duffel style top bag (the one I bought at the Overland Expo previously will now get used on the other bike), two roll bags for extra storage on top of the panniers and two small bags on the crash bars.

Riding Updates:

Still mostly just riding around town, though now using both bikes for that.  Done a few rides as well to nearby areas to run errands and such.  I have also ridden up to my relatives place a few times, and in November I rode the back road route on the Royal Enfield bike.  This route left the north edge of Scottsdale and using just back forest roads I was able to get all the way to the small town along I-17.

The ride was quite amazing for scenery, the road was a bit of a challenge and did manage to come off the bike once after some loose surface on a steep hill moved me to side of road where things were even more loose.

Travel Updates:

India trip blog is done, but I will post the link in another entry in a day or two.  Still working on the videos, but hopefully that will start churning out in the next few weeks, probably take about 1-2 months to get it all done, but finally getting better with the editing tools.

I will be attending the Overland Expo again in May.  Will again ride up and camp, though this time will have proper luggage to haul stuff and hopefully not forget anything again!

Should be a fun trip, and with a little luck, might meet up with some round the world riders that I have been following on YouTube that will be in the area about then.  If things work out time wise, may spend a day riding with them around the Flagstaff area, or maybe up around the Grand Canyon.  Will wait to see when they get into this area (they are currently somewhere in South America still I believe, not sure how far ahead of their video posts they actually are).

Content Updates:

So this blog is of course supposed to be my main outlet for this project, though I have not really kept it as active as I should.  However, it is not the only place where things are posted.

There is also a Facebook page, YouTube Channel and have photos on Google Photos.

I will be putting up another post in a day or two to link all those together, just need to make sure I have them all configured to work.

Wrap up:

So that is everything over the last 9 months in a nutshell.  I will be putting up additional entries on many of those to give more details and link any photos or videos as needed.

Watch for those updates in the next week.

Thanks for reading and take care.

Chris