RUFFLY

10/31/2026

You wouldn’t think to look at her, but Whimsy’s head has an extraordinary mass.

We weren’t warned about it by , and it doesn’t seem to be a trait shared by every Swiss Shepherd.

But, you know all that unseen dark matter that physicists claim exists in the universe but they can’t detect on any instruments?

Well, best as we can reckon, it’s there to be discovered inside Whimsy’s impossibly heavy head!
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📖 Discover all the ways Whimsy weaponizes her heavy head and why we call it her “White Cannonball” in My Heart Is Home with You—Preorder now and please help us spread the word! https://a.co/d/0fqpLOJ2

🏍️ 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

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10/29/2026

PECCADILLOS.

The smallest things are what you remember.

For me with Moxie, it was a certain spot on her chest near the armpit that my hand knew to find like a magnet.

There, is where the scratching caused her hind leg to pump involuntarily through the air like the chugging of a runaway locomotive.

Another thing I remember is how she used to scrounge a wayward stick or fetch one I’d thrown to her. Instead of returning it as part of a shared game, she would drop it to the ground and shovel it between her legs.

When I lost her, I also lost those small, precious, absurd, and charming things too.

So, in those days afterwards and still now when I miss her, it’s usually those peculiar quirks I think about. Silly and inconsequential as they seemed at the time, now they are some of my most tangible memories.

Those silly peccadillos made my Moxie mine alone and nobody else’s in the whole wide world.

Then Whimsy came.

I loved her immediately because nothing is so impossibly endearing as a puppy. But learning to cherish her was another thing.

She became mine alone in the whole wide world only when I discovered her own wonderful, absurd, and charming quirks.

One of these is how she will dance in a kind of high-stepping drum major’s march whenever I scratch just above the base of the tail where it meets the lower back.

The only difference between Moxie’s particular curiosities way back then and Whimsy’s now is the deeper understanding I’ve gained from experience.

Were they the only dogs who ever chugged her hind leg uncontrollably like a locomotive or danced ecstatically while her butt was scratched?

Certainly not.

But they are the only dogs who do it and are mine alone in the whole wide world.
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📖 Read about these wonderful, absurd, and charming quirks and so much more in “My Heart Is Home with You”. It publishes December 1 but preorder your copy now! https://a.co/d/0fqpLOJ2

10/28/2026

Why does a dirt road so captivate the imagination?

It is a way to get from one place to the next, same as any other, except, somehow, it is totally different. Some riders and four-wheel overlanders enjoy the challenge of it—and for good reason. But that’s not the part I like best. The feeling I cherish is not the challenge or excitement; it is enchantment.

I think it is a kind of nostalgia. Dirt roads carry my imagination back to some point in the past long before memory. A time when ordinary people were also called settlers, homesteaders, and pioneers.

Nail-scratch dirt roads and trails are what they used and what the first biplanes flew over in Africa. They are the work of man and the tools of his empires, but recall a time when the world roamed wildly freer.

She is still that same wildcat, this world, so don’t misunderstand me. Her forests needle the sky, and she can break everything a man has built in his long life with one gusty exhale.

But the world we are most familiar with is pockmarked with buildings, cabled, sewered, and paved into strip malls and parking lots.

She is made prisoner by chains of tarmac, but she prances barefoot over these dirt roads.
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📖 Excerpt from my book, “My Heart Is Home with You”—Order your copy now! https://a.co/d/0fqpLOJ2

10/26/2026

MISCHIEF.

Life is filled with reccurring themes.

Many appear throughout my upcoming memoir, “My Heart Is Home with You”, and it always seems like their purpose is to tease—or outright screw us!

Most of the grief and torments are minor, but nearly all share the same furry, white perpetrator.

One of these themes appears near the beginning of the book, when Whimsy curls up for a nap beneath Greg’s desk. When he complains about having no legroom, she lifts her head, only to heave it back down onto his foot like a cannonball.

The theme—if we’re to be literary about it—is how Whimsy seems to conveniently and coincidentally, or perhaps intentionally, use her furry bulk to inconvenience, discomfort, or cut off circulatory blood flow.

Most reccurring instances of this theme occur inside our camping tent, and in these cases, I am always the victim.

Stranger still is how they only happen in particularly warm climates as in the barren hill country of Nicaragua and within the steaming humidity of the Darién jungle.

Why is that?

Whimsy’s outfit nearly matches the woolly trench coat of an arctic wolf, and she often pants to expel heat even as we ride among the snowy trees on mountain slopes.

So, you might reasonably expect her to unroll in a far corner of the tent, settle onto her soft TenderPaw, and make every effort to distance herself from my body heat?

And yet that’s not at all what she does.

Every morning, I awake with her cannonball head propped on my leg or hip, schnout pointed at me like a gun barrel, and a furry forearm draped across my ankles like a shackle.

I am panting and bathed in sweat while she purrs like a cheshire cat despite the rising summer sun.

Is there some strange transference of body heat that happens between us in these moments? That is, does she grow comfortably cooler while I absorb her heat?

Or, more likely, could this be her slyly taking pleasure at making me miserable?
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📖 Discover these griefs and so much more of Whimsy’s mischief in “My Heart Is Home with You.” Please preorder your copy now because it helps get the story out there! https://a.co/d/0fqpLOJ2

10/23/2026

I’m juggling a lot of balls on this around-the-world journey!

There’s running RUFFLY, raising money for Girl Up, and now my memoir publishes in December—can you believe it?!?

But through it all, one mission has remained at the heart of this adventure.

To show what the K9 Moto Cockpit is truly capable of—and how it helps you and your dog adventure together, safely and comfortably.

So far, I’ve put the Cockpit through more than 80,000 miles of real-world testing, riding top-to-bottom across the Americas, through every kind of terrain, weather, and road condition.

And next up? Africa!

Behind the Cockpit are years of design, engineering, and testing, with detailed articles, videos, and diagrams explaining the safety principles underlying every feature.

With the all the road miles to back it all up.

Visit K9MotoCockpit.com for loads of information—and drop us a line for a detailed and personalized breakdown of how the Cockpit mounts to your motorcycle, scooter, e-bike, or snowmobile, and how to determine the right size for your copilot!

RUFFLY’s K9 Moto Cockpit

10/22/2026

Dreams never come easy.

They never come clean or simple either. They might be soaking wet or streaked with mud, or else have fangs and claws or clenched fists.

They will make you chase, wrestle, and pin them down, and they will not submit when you do.

They are not clean or simple, and they never come the way you imagine or expect them to.

Dreams never come easy. They come true.
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📖 Excerpt from my book, “My Heart Is Home with You”— Order your copy now! https://a.co/d/0fqpLOJ2

10/20/2026

When I first started riding, I’ll admit I thought the idea was to look cool as a cucumber on the motorcycle.

Maybe it was my fear of looking like an imposter or because behind that hard face I was struggling to remain calm and be a confident rider.

Either way, I’m sure I overcorrected by trying to act more like Iceman than Goose.

But Whimsy has none of those hang-ups. She doesn’t care how she looks or who’s watching. She just loves being in the moment.

She’s always reminding me to lighten up, have fun, and find joy.

It’s a good lesson to live by everywhere and always, but especially while you’re doing the thing you love, with the copilot you love most!
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So many more lessons from Whimsy and from my journey across the Americas in my upcoming travel memoir! So order “My Heart Is Home with You” now! Order here: https://a.co/d/0fqpLOJ2

🏍️ 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

10/17/2026

10/16/2026

I am enchanted by dirt roads.

You’ll know from my recent Adventure Rider Radio interview that it’s not because I’m such a daring or fearless off-road rider.

It’s because I love where those roads take me.

She is a different world—wildly freer—where the tarmac chains don’t bind her.

Not feral, which is a word you hear a lot now, but beautifully savage.

Where wild things stalk and creeping things crawl and the winds howl louder than the traffic.

These are the places where my heart feels home, and dirt roads are nearly always how you get there.

📖 Excerpt from: My Heart Is Home with You
Preorder your copy now! https://a.co/d/0fqpLOJ2

🏍️ 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

10/12/2026

I didn’t enjoy sharing our story openly at first.

We needed to be our own ‘brand ambassadors’ for RUFFLY in order to pay for it, but the journey is what I craved, not the storytelling.

The reason was that I worried about all the ways I might look foolish: by not being a good enough rider, fumbling my words, maybe having food stuck between my teeth, and so much more.

But not everything that makes you scared or worried is bad—or to be avoided.

Feeling fear is usually the signal that you’re growing, and most steps forward involve fumbles and falling down.

It’s taken me a lot of years to understand this, even though I still shirk far too many challenges and coddle my embarrassments.

But I would hate anyone to get the wrong impression about all the polished posts and videos you see here.

They are just the bits you can see atop the heaping pile of bloopers and face-plants!

🏍️ 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

🎶 Stuck With You by Upstate
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