The last month of the year! Holy hell! How has this happened already?  The last month of the year 2024. It seems entirely surreal that we are even at this juncture in life.  I mean really, 2025 is just right around the corner, and not something in the unforeseeable distant future any longer like it seemed to be growing up. Shows my age a bit I suppose, but even that I don’t rightly care about.  I have earned these gray hairs. I have earned these wrinkles. I have earned these creaking joints. I have earned this cynicism. I have been living the best life that I can and am happy as hell to still be here writing to each one of you every month, and always looking forward to the next. I thank those that have been a part of our journey over the past decade and a half with the magazine, and even longer with life.

I deeply appreciate being a part of few different “communities” that mean the world to me. Emergency response, weapons and hunting, motorcycles, fundamental rights movements, among other things that I have had my hands in over the years, are all a part of who I am and what I do. This was made even more evident to me after having an interview with Ginger with The Bike Lawyers recently. They invited me over to the studio to talk about some stuff about motorcycles, rights, weapons, and other things. Steve recorded Ginger and I having our chat, and then edited it and posted on their social media accounts recently. You can find it on Facebook if you search The Biker Lawyers, P.C., and then scroll down to see a shot of Ginger and I on camera, I shared it as well on our pages. It made me realize that hard work and dedication do pay off, and it is nice to see that on video, I guess. It gave me a profound sense of pride in what I have been doing with my life for decades, and that I have chosen the right path and doing what I feel is best for me and those I care about. If you watched it, thanks, if you want to…look it up.

I am ever grateful as well for the far less amounts of political emails, calls, and commercials. I hope that we can all bury the hatchets, metaphorically speaking of course. I hope that each one of you that could vote did so. I don’t care how you voted, just that you did vote.  I know that some feel that they won, some feel that they lost, and I am sure there is more bullshit that we will deal with in the future politically, but I would hope that we can not as much worry about left nor right, but head straight up the middle together.  Our future might sure as hell depend on doing just that.  Onward and upward!

I have a favor to ask of our loyal readers as well. We are working on populating the event listing for 2025, and we have quite a few events already, but we need them to keep pouring in to get added to the list.  Please email your events that are known and confirmed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We need the date of the event, the name of the event, and the starting location town.  Please send them so we can get them added to the list as soon as possible. We thank you in advance!

We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

Keep dreaming of the next riding season! Be safe!

Vernon Schwarte

Quote of the Month: “The road is there; it will always be there. You just must decide when to take it.” Chris Humphrey