Ramblins from the two wheelin' fool
I spent a fair amount of time milling around town before getting on the road. The breakfast at the inn was really good and with the heavy fog in the area I was tempted to stay in town longer than I should have. I knew it was going to be a longer day but somehow [...]
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A friend of mine recommended staying in Trinidad a number of years ago. I put it on the “list” but never got up to town. I figured this was the weekend to go see it. I stayed at a place that was a bit, ok a lot, nicer than the usual fare. The inn sits [...]
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I was tired of being in such heat. The Sacramento valley sun was in full force pushing temps over 100F during the day. It was time to find some better weather. My helmet was starting to get a bit of well, funk, in it so it was time to air it out! The air conditioner [...]
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There was no getting around that it was going to be hot today. The only real escape was elevation. Redding was supposed to be 107 for the high which is just miserable. The big problem with this time of year is that the high comes late in the day so it was worth staying at [...]
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Day 1: 191 miles I got an invite to go on a ride with some of my co workers. It turns out that this ride has been going on for about the last 20 years as the Memorial Day lap around northern California. This year they decided to move it out a week. I am [...]
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I got to meet up with a buddy of mine from the Bay Area who moved up to Eureka about a year ago. Adam was one of the first few folks I met out here that rode bikes whom I had known from the usenet group rec.motorcycles. We had breakfast, kicked some tires, and caught [...]
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Wow… it seemed like the big and little sabbaticals started out right about the same… I left packing to the last minute, got out way later than I wanted to, and rode 101 all the way up to the final point for the night. It’s not the most scenic of routes, but it does have [...]
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Since I was up later than I had planned, I decided to sleep in a bit this morning, until 8am . When I was loading the final items on the bike, random stuff kept coming up that I needed to take care of, ie, putting away the laundry that was in the dryer, emptying my [...]
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