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Finding the “Lost Coast”
I have been planning on exploring this area for almost 50 years now. It looks like this will be the year and getting there will be half the fun! One of my favorite roads in the state is Hwy 1 from Cambria to Monterey. It is a scenic and twisty tourist route, but if you… Continue reading
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The longer way home!
Almost every year, in the Spring and Fall I do a motorcycle shuffle from north to south. This year, in June, I am bringing my BMW 900XR up from the San Diego area back to our home in Oregon. The most direct route would be straight up the I-5 through California and into Oregon, but… Continue reading
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Riding a Cinghiale through Tuscany!
Cinghiale in Italian loosely translates to “wild boar”, which is a popular ingredient in local Tuscan cuisine. It also is a good descriptor for the motorcycle that we would be riding for this 7 day tour around the region! Continue reading
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Bad day at Borrego!
Sounds like a western movie, right? Well, we were in the west, and we were riding along pretty well and enjoying the day, until we weren’t! It turned into a sad tale but the premise was simple, four friends getting in a moto ride in the desert. Continue reading
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Coast to Coast in Spain 2024
Riding the Pyrenees June 2024, I return to ride in Spain, this time with two of my riding friends Craig and Lynn. This year we are doing a self guided tour offered by IMT Motorbike Tours which begins and ends in Barcelona. They provide the motorbikes, a GPS unit programmed with each days route and… Continue reading
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2024 BMW National Rally, Redmond Oregon
Motorcycle rally’s are not really my thing, but when the BMW Motorcycle Owners Association National Rally is this close to home I had to go! Continue reading
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Central Coast Explorer
Some of my regular riding buddies met me in California this past May for a few days of riding and other mischief. We started in Taft California as it was a convenient and inexpensive meeting place to start the ride. Continue reading
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1980 BMW Rally, Prineville Oregon
This rally was a bit before my time, but in summer of 1980 my father rode there solo on his 1977 R100RS from southern California. I’ve been going through some old photos as a winter project and found some slides from the trip and I’m just sharing them here. Maybe there are a few folks… Continue reading
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South for the winter, again
October 2023 For the past few years this has been an annual migration of sorts for me. To take a motorcycle down to SoCal where we have a place to leave a bike, and then when we visit in winter I have a bike to ride. The weather is often good for riding there in… Continue reading
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Bear Tooth and Lolo Pass Epic-ness
June 2023 My 1200 RT had been wintering in Southern California but it was time to bring it home to Oregon. My preferred route is to ride up the coast, but with Hwy 1 closed until at least the end of the year I saw an opportunity to explore some new riding country and reconnect… Continue reading
Go ahead, make my day!
“Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.” I think that I have gained a lot of wisdom this way.
Recent Posts
- Finding the “Lost Coast”
- The longer way home!
- Riding a Cinghiale through Tuscany!
- Bad day at Borrego!
- Coast to Coast in Spain 2024
One response to “Finding the “Lost Coast””
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wow! I didn’t know there was so much open land in california! Thanks for taking me on the trip with you
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