Big milestone reached
20 thousand miles of motorbiking in about 3 years and 9 months. When I started on this crazy idea at the age of 51 to try out motorbiking for the first time in my life, I would not have guessed that I would do it for 4 years. Nor that I would keep my first motorbike for 20,000 miles…
The love for biking and the bike itself are going strong so far!!

This is what I collected this year…
Four standard nib fountain pens and three glass nib pens. My total is now around 85 standard nib pens and 8 glass nib pens. The rightmost pen is unique in that it is an “eyedropper” fountain pen. Which means, it does not have an ink filling mechanism (like cartridge or ink piston). Like we used to do in India, you just pour the ink directly into the barrel (main body of the pen).

Dallas Fountain Pen Show
From the bartender’s corner – Betsy Ross
Very funny board in a local coffee house
From the bartender’s corner – Harrington
This is a simple cocktail with Vodka, Orange Curacao and Green Chartreuse. Ideally, I would garnish by squeezing an orange peel over the drink and then floating it in the drink. But, I could not find any orange in our refrigerator.
The nose is full of the Chartreuse aroma and the palate is decidedly citrusy from the orange.







