Woke up early this morning, but not in any particular hurry, as my destination for the evening was my friends Mark and Ln’s place, Sunfire, in Escondido. GPS says 202 miles. I get a road recommendation from Mark (Fort Tejon road …
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Walkabout day 5: Sierra Nevada foothills and Tehachapi Mts.
Arose this morning at Chez Grrrldogs in Galt to a beautiful morning, at least outside. Inside my head was a different story, I was a bit blue and homesick. This usually happens to me on a trip, about day 5 …
Read MoreWalkabout day 4: visiting old (and newish) friends
walkabout day 4. today was visiting day. lunch with an old high school friend, tea with an author/teacher friend in oakland, coffee with another old high school friend, and then dinner with motorcycle friends in Galt. not much riding, only …
Read MoreWalkabout day 3: in which there were snowflakes…
307 miles today, but it felt a lot longer, mostly due to torential rain, cold, and even a little snow just north of Laytonville, CA. Yikes. Waiting this morning in the hotel in Eureka, I realized that I hate doing …
Read MoreWalkabout Day 2: In which I went down the drain. drain, oregon. really!
447 miles today, a little longer than I usually like, but there were Issues. It appears that rain is headed for the northern california coast tomorrow. In consideration, today’s plan was to get far enough south that cutting inland could be …
Read Moreday 1, in which very little exciting actually happens
well, day 1 went pretty well. I sit here in the palacial living room of my friends Jocelyn and Steve, after a nice dinner, stealing their inter-tubes. two technical difficulties reared their ugly head: the GPS antenna cannot live on …
Read MoreKTM 950 Overnight Camping Shakedown cruise (17 april 2010)
Departed home slightly after scheduled time, situation normal, right? Stopped in monroe for fuel and to meet anyone who might have decided to come along and not told me. There is no one there, so about 12:40, I headed east …
Read MoreEvent Report: April Fool’s Trial, 11 April 2010, Walker Valley
Checking the weather forecast on saturday convince me to take the chance and leave my portable shelter at home: 10% chance of precipitation, highs in the upper 50s. If that actually held up, it would be one of the nicest …
Read MorePreparing to go ‘walkabout’
As some you already know, your obedient scribe is planning a trip, what my wife and I refer to as ‘going walkabout’ after the australian tradition of ‘seeing what’s out there’. In this case, I’ll be using a KTM 950 …
Read MoreKTM 950 Retrieval Trip, Feb 19 – 21, 2010
So I decided to take a gamble and go to California to retrieve the KTM I purchased 3 weeks ago. It is a 2006 KTM 950 Adventure with 4000 miles on the clock. The weather reports looked OK, if not stellar, …
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