I am always a sucker for a well-shot video about a motorcycle trip, and YouTuber Chris Ironhardt’s travelogues have always been some of my favorites. Like Jake Bolles (see our chat with Jake here), Chris likes to make videos about escaping the big metropolis on a plain and simple bike, taking in small towns across North America. And now, Ironhardt has a new video out showing a trip that takes him from New York City to the Cabot Trail and other backwoods corners of Cape Breton Island on Canada’s east coast.

Ironhardt takes us through New England to the Bar Harbor, Maine ferry that takes so many motorcyclists to the southern tip of Nova Scotia. From there, it’s north to Cape Breton on a trip that involves some family history. “I am in some way recreating a trip that my dad took from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia during the 1980s on his Kawasaki,” Ironhardt says in the description.

But he’s exploring more than his heritage and the landscape around him. He says he’s fascinated by the responses he gets to the question “How did you get into motorcycling,” and he talks about his own moto development process as he rides along on his 2012 Triumph Bonneville SE.

Watching this video, I see a lot of roads I recognize, and I see the kind of touring that many serious motorcycles are into, those early-season rides before the tourists take over the roads. And I recognize the same quirk-of-fate story that put Ironhardt on two wheels for life, just like so many of the rest of us. It’s the basic bike story that many of us think of on the days we’re stuck in the office, or snowed in all winter long. Maybe it’ll inspire your own trip, to tell your own moto history stories?