Travel

So - why were we 2-up in this photo? Well, I'll tell you. But, let me preface this by saying I am not trying to bad-mouth anyone and not recommending a company be avoided. I am just telling the story from my point of view. It was a crap situation ...

I shot this photo on Route 1 in California with my GoPro during the final riding day of our road trip in September 2011. It's a little bit of a different point of view for me. One I'm not all that fond of. This big question of course should be ...

Sometimes... sometimes there are just no words that you can string together to properly convey your feelings. I was on the side of the road taking a picture of the view when I saw Kenny raise his hands up as if to say, 'Can you believe this? This is incredible!' and just ...

When you head south on Mattole Road from Ferndale, if you stick with it all the way back to 101 you will enter a portion of the Humboldt Redwoods. When you do... wow. There is a dampened silence amongst the giant trees. It seems like they carry with them a ...

When life gives you garbage, make a glass beach When Kenny and I pulled away from the Inn at the Lost Coast a piece of me stayed behind. Spending the night, watching the sunset over the Pacific will forever be in my heart as one of the most perfect, romantic, ...

Unfortunately, you cannot get up close and personal with the Willits, California Muffler Man unless the rodeo is open. I had to peer through the fence at this rootin' tootin' cowpoke. Handsome, isn't he? Anyone know if he wear cowboy boots? My Muffler Man Photo Gallery Willits Muffler Man – ...

Sometimes you're just cruising along and then whammo! Something awesome crosses your path. "I'm goin' down to South Park, gonna have myself a time..." Found at The Peg House -  Leggett, Ca ...

When Kenny and I were heading south on California 96, we traded places with another group of riders along the route a few times. When we stopped in Weitchpec for gas, they were not long in pulling in behind us. An FJR came wheeling in to the lot and parked ...

When some girls talk of romance they refer to things like candle lit dinners, wine and roses. Not, me. I found the ultimate romantic moment on our California roadtrip. This recipe serves 2 motorcyclists: Start with 2 motorcycles Add  twisty roads Sprinkle with curves to taste Bake under the sun at 75 ...

On the west end of town in Ferndale stands a gate with an arrow pointing towards Capetown and Petrolia. This is Mattole Road. If you're curious enough to hook that turn and head up the little road with no line up the middle, you will be handsomely rewarded with treasure ...

I found this impressive cone laying on the side of the road in the Lassen National Forest. Isn't that something? I was going to make a grossly inappropriate joke about it not being the size but the seed inside that counts - but then I thought better of it ...

Wednesday's ride had Kenny and I traveling over a curvaceous stretch of California 36 from Red Bluff to the coast, where we stopped in Ferndale to have lunch. When we pulled in to the beautiful Victorian town, I took a quick scan up and down the street and picked a ...

While in California, Kenny and I spent a lot of time with out GoPro cameras set to photo mode. We varied the photo shooting time between 1 and 3 second intervals. Overall, I found that I much prefer having a lot of photos to sift through, rather than hours of ...

Not only does California's Route 36 boast beautiful riding and the world's greatest road sign - it does so much more. It's undulating roadway oozes hope from it's very blacktop. What the hell am I talking about? Well, darlings, I'm so glad you asked. Near Cottonwood, California where a dumpy, ...

Aside from being a great road to ride, California Highway 96 also has a high number of reported Bigfoot sightings. The town of Happy Camp has a great statue to honor the wooly beast. Bigfoot's "hair" is actually made out of what appeared to be chain link fencing. And get ...

From Mount Shasta, Kenny and I were headed for the most northern leg of our trip. We were going to pick up Highway 96 just north of Yreka (Y-reeka). What lay in store for us was over 150 miles of smooth sailing. A hundred and fifty great miles on the ...

This handsome cowboy once stood in Dunsmuir, California but now calls Highway 89 in Hat Creek home. You Might Also Like: ...

When we got up from our cozy slumber in Lake Tahoe it felt so good to look out the sliding door to find that the storm that had dogged us the day before had moved on. Kenny, Ed and I had breakfast and took a walk around back of our hotel ...

A picture taken by me of me taking a picture. My apologies if the Universe explodes somewhere around lunchtime. During our trip to California, I found that I prefer to set the GoPro to picture mode rather than video mode. The picture quality is much better than pulling video stills ...

If at any point we thought the rain we'd run into on the Sonora Pass was going to be the toughest part of our day, we had another thing coming. We watched the lightning striking and listened to the rumble of thunder echo between the peaks of the hills towards ...

I think this may be the smallest post office I have seen yet. I guess there isn't much of a building needed to support the 50 resident town of Topaz, California. Isn't it sweet? ...

Hot, cold, hot, cold... that summed up the weather on our trip up to this point. As we rode higher up into the mountains on CA 108, heading towards the beautiful Sonora Pass we would finally press our luck with the rain. View Larger Map I pulled over on a ...

Okay, I'm just going to apologize up front. You're probably going to get a teensy-weensy bit of drool on your keyboard. A quick dab with a napkin oughta do it. It'll be our little secret. Sometimes what you don't see on a road can set your imagination on fire. Two ...

You didn't think we were going to go all the way to California and not stop and say 'hello' to some of the neighborhood Muffler Men, did you? This guy was standing outside of a now belly-up business called Tyre Treds. Seeing the building vacant made me a little nervous ...

As we climbed up into the mountains of Sequoia National Park, the temperature dropped sharply. We rode from Porterville and it's scorched earth up into the park where the roads were wet and the air was cool. It seemed that we'd once again skirted what must have been a soaking ...