Travel

The weather in California proved to be unpredictable. We went through cycles of sweating bullets to freezing cold over and over again. The hottest weather we experienced was along the aptly named Hot Springs Drive around Porterville. The grassy hills were fried to a golden crisp with a garnish of ...

When you're on the road, it can be difficult to coordinate times and places to meet up with people. This is espcially true when you don't have a set route or plan. Meetings require a bit of flexibility on everyone's part. Kenny and I called our dear friend Ed when ...

By the time we'd pulled in to San Luis Obispo and found a hotel, the sun had packed it in for the night and a wet fog hung on Route 1. It had been a great day of riding. The following morning I woke up to the sound of steady ...

Wow, What a View Do you think it's possible to tire of looking at the Pacific Ocean from the seat of your motorcycle? I had plenty of time to ponder that question while Kenny and I rode south on the PCH. This was our second time riding down the coast ...

What better way to give your new livery a test than with a winding road? As the sun rose higher in the sky, we made our way from the cool air of San Francisco to the golden hills of Route 130 to visit the Lick Observatory atop Mt. Hamilton. If ...

If there were roosters in San Fancisco, I'm sure I would've woke them up while making my morning coffee. I was up long before the sun rubbed the sleep out of it's eyes. By the time blondie finally came to and began his usual morning scratch, I'd already put the ...

Though our trip to California centered around motorcycle riding, we padded that time with a day up front and the tail end of the trip for hanging around in San Francisco. Our first visit in 2008 left such a great impression on both Kenny and I that we were very ...

Winding road next 140 miles. Can you say it with me? One hundred... forty... miles. This gorgeous sign is found on Route 36 in Red Bluff, California. More Posts From This Trip: ...

Now there is somebody who knows what's up. Sunshine? Check. Scooter? Check. Still on the green side of the grass? Check. Life is good ...

If you are sitting at a desk far, far away and trying to plan a motorcycle trip through California - Pashnit.com (pronounced: passionate) MUST be one of the websites that you consult. The brainchild of Tim Mayhew, it is a collection of the greatest California motorcycle roads, maps, photos and ...

Planning a riding trip from afar has it's challenges. Without local knowledge of a place you can only estimate what a place will be like. The internet really helps to make the universe a little smaller with blog posts, websites and photos from all over the globe. While looking for ...

Kenny decided he wanted to go back to northern California to do some motorcycle riding. As a good girlfriend, I obliged him and agreed to go along. My arm was killing me from all of the twisting but whattayagonnado? 😉 Though we are pretty loose when it comes to planning ...

Bill and I danced along the Blue Ridge Parkway on our two ugly ducklings. They kinda make a nice couple though, don't they? ...

In September of 2010, Kenny and I met up with our friend Patrick in Italy and spent a little over a week riding around in the mountains. Our travels took us to Italy, Switzerland, the teeny-weeny country of Liechtenstein, and Austria. The trip was, in a word - monumental. Even ...

Motorcycles and photography are a match made in heaven. How about posting some of your fab motorcycle-related photos and sharing them with us based on a photo meme? Photo Meme: Bridges This coastline photo features the Bixby Creek Bridge on California's Route 1. It was taken in June 2008 when ...

The 9th of September was bittersweet. It was a special day in that it marked Kenny's 40th birthday. He got to spend the day doing what he loved; riding motorcycles on amazingly twisty roads. Unfortunately, it also marked the last day of riding that we were to do with Pimmie ...

Kenny and Pimmie both rode with GoPro Hero HD cameras throughout our Alpine trip. Kenny mounted his on the side of his helmet for a "you're seeing what I'm seeing" point of view and Pimmie mounted his GoPro on the front of his Tuono near the right mirror stalk. Each ...

Well hello, sunshine! What a difference a day makes. I wish I knew why I am a morning person. I so envy those that can slumber into the late morning. Alas, it isn't in the cards for me. I'm the first one up at home and seemed to be the ...

Oh, Innsbruck. Our time together was too short. On Wednesday morning, we packed up our circus in no time flat and said goodbye to the city. We were heading back up in to the mountains. Following yet another of my whims, we would be heading towards the town of Corvara, ...

While riding on the Fluelapass in Switzerland we passed an Ecomobile. You can file that under something you don't see everyday! What am I talking about? It's a Swiss BMW K-bike powered, enclosed motorcycle with outrigger wheels that come down when you slow to a stop. I think the model might ...

After a long day in the saddle we pulled in to the city of Innsbruck around dinner time. We found a nice,  inexpensive hotel on the outskirts in the town of Rum. We got cleaned up and went for dinner in the hotel's restaurant. By the time we finished up, ...

The first thing that I did when I woke up was open up the window and look out. To my dismay the roadway was damp. But... at least it wasn’t raining. I watched four little birds playing in the fountain outside as the chilly morning air crept in. I then ...

When we climbed down from the top of the San Bernardino pass, we had the rain on our heels. If we were going to make the most of our plans for the day we were going to have to get on the gas and hightail it out of there. We ...

Though it has been in use since Roman times, the San Bernardino pass was first made known to me from the first episode of Top Gear season 10. In it, Clarkson, Hammond and May set off to Europe to find the world's best driving roads. Watching that show on DVD ...

In typical case-of-the-Mondays fashion, the weather report didn't look promising. But, the fact that the fog was burning off and the sun was elbowing it's way through the cloud cover was a encouraging. Three sets of wheels hurtled towards riding nirvana. One beautiful thing about the alpine mountain passes of ...