A lot of new books get published every year in this great country of ours, and in 2019 it was more than a million. Plus millions more previously published books. Pretty hard to keep track of them all. So how did I hear about this guy Fitterling and his two books" I noticed on a Baja California website the mention of a book called ?Chilli, Skulls & Tequila,? and Baja always interests me. I looked it up on the computer, and the book was being sold by a company called Road Dog Publications. Tap a few keys on this keyboard, and up pops a website primarily dedicated to travel books involving motorcycles, owned by Michael Fitterling.

I contact him; he sounds interesting. He had a brief exposure to mini bikes as a kid, and then went off and did other things. Did not get back into motorcycles until he was 50, when he was working for a small publishing company, Lost Classics Book Company, specializing in reprinting old books. He acquired that company in 2010. He had a wife and kids, and had rebuilt a 40-year-old, non-running Honda CB350, which soon had an additional 30,000 miles on the odometer. He decided to start another publishing line dedicated to books about traveling on motorcycles, and in 2012 bought a Triumph Bonneville T100. Then he joined the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club and became editor of its magazine.
In 2014 he decided to write ?Thoughts on the Road: Wrenching, Riding & Reflecting,? an entertaining recollection of how he got into this motorc...