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  1. Adam (my son) was getting stir crazy after a few weeks of Sabbatical, so he decided to burn some free air miles and come down for a quick visit. I picked him up at the airport and we headed straight to the hot tub with a couple of Old Fashions and stayed up way too late catching up on "the latest". We would motel it one night, and camp the second night. The ride-plan was to ride some ADV bike routes I'd not done yet, starting with what I call @Mr.JAJA's track from Ramona to Big Bear. I bypassed some for the sake of time and miles as needed. So we hot footed it up Wildcat Canyon, Old Julian to Santa Ysabel, and on to Warner springs where we put it in dirt-mode at the Indian Flats turn off. I love this track, from there to Anza. It's scenic, fun and has a lot of playfulness to it. Both the old broken pavement and the white dirt trail have about a hundred wheelies built into them. These should not be wasted! Occasionally there's an area here and there where you can wander a bit and explore. North of the crossroad we ran into about 7 or so honest dirt bikers and stopped for a chat. They were part of the Flying Monkey gang out of Temecula. Good folks. I've ridden with them a couple times in the past. One fella on an orange bike warned me twice that the road ahead was in pretty bad shape and had roughed him up a little. I let him know that I ride it 6 or 8 times a year. In hind sight I should've said I'd heard there was a Starbucks up here and needed an Iced Carmel Macchiato. But I usually think of something cute to say long after the moment's past. This was going to be a sort of dirt shake down test for my sorta healed up leg. Any goof ball can gimp his bike around the street, but I needed to see how dirt worthy the leg/ankle/foot was. And . . . . . . sure enough, I took a heavy dab in a tight sand corner and yelped like a whipped coyote. Holy schmokes that stung. Thought I might have really boogered things up again so we took a scenic break for awhile and then moseyed forward to a great breakfast burrito in Anza. I got robbed of a LOT of great adventures last summer by a stupid broken clavicle. And I NEEDED to make sure I didn't have a repeat this summer. So over a smokin' hot sauced breakfast burrito I decided no more dirt. We would stay on the roads and just tour where there was very little risk of furthering the mornings setback. Udo's track would have to wait. Next stop Idyllwild. Off we went. And I gotta say, if you're bored riding pavement from Anza to Idyllwild, you're either on the wrong bike or you're just doing it wrong. Sometimes sight seeing mode is just fine. Of course the Pines-to-Palms highway all the way over to the 10 is just dreamy. Both visually and sweeping all those turns. There's something magical when you ride the perfect line, at the perfect speed, getting slung through and out the end of the turn only to line up for the next one. Left right, left, right, .... I love the dance. We were blessed with little to no traffic on this road and pretty much the whole trip. Figured we roll through Joshua Tree backwards, going south to northwest on our way to Big Bear. I purposely didn't take much for pics here as we could have lost the day to it here alone. If you've been, you know. If you haven't, you must. Of course Pioneer town was sitting smack in our path, so, there's that. All this was new to Adam, and was a reminder to me of how much cool stuff we are surrounded by in So Cal. This looked like a good spot to take a break, so we did. After a few songs from the live band and an appy at the bar, we toured onward and made the counter clockwise loop through Johnson Valley to Big Bear for the night. We checked in and then wandered the village for a cold beer and a great dinner. All in all a great day of riding, sight seeing, telling stories over the Cardo's for about 350 miles. Adam remarked that it felt so good to just soak up "the joy of riding". For the last 2 years he's been training daily for the GS Trophy and hasn't really gone out to just ride. This was going to turn into three days of really good medicine for both of us. To be continued . . .
  2. I decided I needed a mid-week moto infusion before a 4 day weekend with beloved and wonderful family in town, @Hawkins was also available to play 40yo version of hookey so we rode the big bikes on a 300+ mile loop. Started at my house in Lakeside, 67 to Old Julian, out to the Chairs for some gas, then up in to Julian, banner to Borrego Springs, and on out to the Salton Sea, and around it, and back home. We ate at the Alamo restaurant, I like the place and stop there any time we ride out that way. Carne asada burritos, chips and salsa and a soda, yes please. After that we hit the gas station to put a drink and a snack on the bikes and headed toward the Visitor center. At the visitor center we watched the history video of the salton sea, and went and checked things out, I also got some neat identification fold-outs of reptiles, snakes, and small critters that we get in the yard. Next stop Salvation Mtn, Slab City and East Jesus. Hawkins had not been in there before so figured it would be interesting for him to see. Just a nice big day long ride, sometimes I forget how good the pasta rocket is for exactly this. We started the ride sometime after 8am, had a nice lazy lunch at Alamo, and took time to take pictures, walk about and enjoy the sights. The riding was great, weather was perfect, and there wasn't too many cages in the lanes. Home shortly after 4pm. HERE ARE SOME PIKTCHARS
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