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A short ride just tooling around looking for new to us little local roads. It was a little chilly but a good day nevertheless. I need to do this more often, not less. #motomaps #motorcycles #localroads #maryland #suzuki #dr650 #bmw #k1300s https://www.instagram.com/p/CN08UbqnN8I/?igshid=1w4avtoecgp82

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“It’s late but ... wanna go for a ride?” “This is a rhetorical question, right.” I had gotten quite a bit of work done on the software. I’m finally at the stage where I’m building the “killer feature”, well the one I am most looking forward to using. So given how nice the weather is I thought it wouldn’t be too scandalous and irresponsible to go for a short ride. It was a late afternoon/evening ride on roads we know well. Another day of beautiful weather (unlike what I hear is happening on the West Coast.) On a whim we turned on one little road North of I70 we had always ignored and suddenly we found ourselves on dozens of miles of skinny little forest tree tunnel roads that we have missed all these years. It’s crazy to think there are still such good roads waiting to be “discovered”. This is the problem @america_rides_maps solves for the Blueridge and Smokies. #exploration #k1300s #r1100s #motomaps #ridetracking #therewillbeanappforthatsoon https://www.instagram.com/p/CE2wuSLH6fZ/?igshid=1pe8bg3e63yl6

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Ever since I built the initial prototype of my answer to the question “How can I better track and remember my rides”, I’ve dutifully uploaded all my tracks to my account on miles-by-motorcycle.com. The way I have things organized, I can search for just my tracks over a given area, not to mention each ride has it’s own entry with who went and what bikes they were riding. Pondering “where to go riding tomorrow” I thought I’d look where I’ve been and see if there are any interesting gaps in my travels. I may have done a bit of riding in the last four years. 😳 While what’s up on the site right now is just a clunky proof of concept prototype, I am nearing completion (Really, I mean it this time!) of a near production quality release of my ride planner and map viewer which I hope will finally be in a form that anyone with average social media skills will be able to successfully use. My hope is that it will represent a more compelling motorcycle travel specific alternative to Basecamp. Close. So close. But once I finish this I still have the major push to turn it into an app with which I hope to use to track and document my rides with much more richness mot to mention being able to coordinate rides and meetup points with others. My hope is that maybe someday I’ll get this into a state that others might like to try to plan, document, and share their rides with it. That’s really what it is about for me. I just love seeing other riders travel stories and Instagram, Facebook, et al just don’t let me do it in the way I would like. Dammit, if you show me some place cool I’m a gonna wanna click on it and slam it on my map of “places to go check out”. On Facebook I can’t do that, but on miles-by-motorcycle.com I can. It’s been a very tall order for a solo developer to build what is in essence a combination of Facebook and Google Maps and often I have found my efforts lacking, but I am a bit hopeful now. This has been such an unbelievable long hard slog through endless setbacks. But I am close and can’t wait to start using the nee software live. I think it’s going to change how and where I ride for the better. 🤞🤞🤞 #motomaps #mapping #mapbox #touring #sporttouring https://www.instagram.com/p/CEs4OOEH_xJ/?igshid=1m7l6bife3t9c

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A few more photos from yesterdays ride through Southern Maryland .... #motomaps #milesbymotorcycle #maryland #chesapeake #patuxentriver @aerostich #roadcrafter https://www.instagram.com/p/B3SFRvpn8_r/?igshid=90s40hs5owzw

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By no means an exciting ride but pleasant nonetheless. We got to see some new landscapes and ride through areas neither of us have ridden before. Quote of the day, @duncansterling asks, “How far have we ridden so far? Oh wait, I have an app for that.” 😇 #delmarva #bmw #motomaps #motoapp #maps #delaware #r1100s https://www.instagram.com/p/B2aTG7ZHEG-/?igshid=1dwfoklhhpido

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Current situation. #mbymc #motomaps #apptesting #mapbox #nativescript #easternshore https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ZvJHdHRmP/?igshid=1biyulhx0ese8