Category: Trip Reports
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Juniper Springs Resort: Great in the off season, good in season
Some buddies and I usually take a motorcycle trip all over the Sierras around Memorial Day weekend. Usually we stay on the west side of the Sierras near Yosemite, but prices this year seemed way… Read more
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Deep into Yosemite National Park!
It’s hard to believe a year has passed since the last trip. The ride is an interesting mix of people from both Northern and Southern California. It seems that the Northern California group is much… Read more
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Memorial Day Ride & Q
The group had some interesting toys all ride up. The most interesting was the set of VW Bugs… As a kid I rode in a Honda Pilot (not the SUV) much like this one on… Read more
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Thunder and Lighnin'
Wow! What a ride! I left the bay area around my usual 3 PM. I was only going to the gold country, so it wasn’t actually that long of a ride. Leaving the Bay Area… Read more
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Flying to Colorado
Flying to Colorado this time was an absolute adventure. I definitely had issues both ways. On the way there, my flight was totally changed. I got about six calls from Delta alerting me for a… Read more
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Good Night San Francisco!
Earlier in the week I was up in the city taking photos of the Bay Bridge at sunrise. People were talking about this so-called quote “super moon” this weekend. I heard through the web that… Read more
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Good Morning San Francisco!
A friend of mine, Matt, took a photo of the Bay Bridge and posted it on Facebook. I was very much intriuged by the photo and wanted to try my own to see if I… Read more
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No Poppies
I was headed out to Arastradero park to see if I could find some poppies. I’ve seen them by the freeway a number of times this spring in good color. The park usually has some… Read more
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East Bay Fun
Inertia is a very powerful thing. Because I am used to the Santa Cruz Mountains and love the ocean, I very rarely ride out in the East Bay. On top of that, I’ve never really… Read more
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Eighty Thousand Strong
This was going to be the trip where the bike rolled over 80,000 miles. I had thought I might’ve made it on the Easter ride, but I was about 20 miles short and didn’t want… Read more
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Easter Sunrise: A Bay Area Motorcycle Tradition
Easter morning brings about an interesting tradition amongst Bay Area motorcyclists. Depending on the weather anywhere from a few to a few hundred motorcycles gather at the top of Mount Tamalpias to see the sunrise.… Read more
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Daffodil Hill, Sorta
I’d had the Daffodil Hill run on the calendar since March 17th, then the 24th, then the 31st. Finally April 1st was showing some promise. The skies were supposed to be clear, even though some… Read more
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Seabright Beach: A few rays of sun in the clouds
It really has been a dry winter. Most of December, January, and February were sunny days in the mid 60s. Not a bad way to get through this thing called winter. However, to our benefit… Read more
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Rolling Home – 226 Miles
Getting into town was a bit of an adventure. I turned on the wrong dirt road winding up in someone’s backyard that I didn’t think they wanted me there. With a bit of backtracking and… Read more
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US 101: It really doesn’t suck – 169 Miles
This was one of those weekends I just needed to get out of town. I’d not been on a good long road trip alone in a while and my body was telling me it was… Read more
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Santa Cruz Scrub
This was pretty much the perfect weekend to ride. It’s been a fairly mild winter overall, but even so when a day pops up with clear skies and temperatures near the 70s it’s time to… Read more
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Happy Halloween from Mountain View
A number of years ago a roommate of mine stumbled up on a homeowner in the area that liked Halloween to a completely new level! Brent Ross, a local in Mountain View, stages a Halloween… Read more
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Backroads Boggie in the Bay
A good friend of mine was in town and was looking to do a little riding around the bay as he’s often here on business and has never been riding out here. I didn’t know… Read more
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Day 4: A New Way Home (285 Miles)
The rain and snow never really materialized over the Kings Canyon area so I was in luck. The weather was good and the loud as all get out stream was still rolling in the morning!… Read more
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Day 3: Run Forrest Run! (203 Miles)
I was looking forward to today. I had a few new roads to add to the repertoire and anything had to be better than yesterday. Breakfast was at Cheryl’s which was next door to the… Read more
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Day 2: Mixup, Mystical, and Misstep (255 Miles)
The day’s plan started out simple enough: Ride 168 west to see fall color, Ride 168 east to see the Bristlecone Pines, Ride Sherman Pass to Stay in Kernville. As they say nothing is as… Read more
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Day 1: Out to the Sierra (333 miles)
It’s time to head to the Sierras yet again to get yet one more ride in before the snows close the roads for the winter. We had some pretty intense rain down in the Bay… Read more
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Camping: Has it been that long?
I’m continually amazed at how fast time passes these days. Since camp was canceled this year I’d not had a long stint out in the woods, particularly out in Kings Canyon. A good friend of… Read more
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Bridgeport 2011 (620 miles)
I wasn’t planning on going to Bridgeport this year as I’d been doing some traveling recently on the bike and decided that I could have used a weekend at home. About a week before I… Read more
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Fog and Dirt: Abort, Retry, Fail?
So I spent the weekend poking around the Central Coast with an old friend of mine who’s out here from NYC. Highway 1 had tons of traffic on it so we went exploring on some… Read more
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A new gem: Shelter Cove (410 miles)
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… Read more
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Trinidad Bay B & B
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.… Read more
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From 100F to 60F in three hours (185 Miles)
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… Read more
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It Hasta be Shasta! (350 miles)
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… Read more
