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By The Numbers–California Ride
1 Motorcycle 2 Riders 7 National Forests# 27 Counties* ~1,560 miles _____________ #Siskiyou, Six Rivers, Eldorado, Tahoe, Plumas, Lassen, and Shasta National Forests *Benton, Linn, Lane, Douglas,...
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California Adventure-Day 1, Philomath to Capetown
Forrest and I left Philomath on Sunday, August 16th for points south. We headed south on I-5 bound for Grants Pass. It was a gorgeous morning–perfect for starting an adventure! We stopped briefly in...
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Day 2-Capetown to Mendocino
I woke up on Day 2 feeling pretty stiff from a long day on the bike the day before. Things weren’t about to get much better in terms of pure hours sitting on the bike although I was really excited for...
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Day 3-Mendocino to Menlo Park
We woke up and broke camp without eating breakfast. It was chilly and we were anxious to get on the road. We cruised down to Point Arena where we ate breakfast in a cute cafe before riding out to take...
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Day 4-San Francisco, Menlo Park, Palo Alto
On what was supposed to be our relaxing day off we walked the entire city of San Francisco. Okay, so not the ENTIRE city but we did cover a fair amount of ground. Once making our way from the CalTrain...
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Day 5- Menlo Park to Fairfield
Thursday morning we said goodbye to Lucy, loaded our stuff back on the V-Strom and headed for Fairfield. It was a nice short 80 mile ride but plenty California-ness to last me a long time. We toured...
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Day 6-Fairfield to Tahoe and north
We got a late start out of Fairfield after a yummy breakfast and headed east for Placerville. Placerville was kind of a cute town in a kitschy tourist miner way. We didn’t stay long, just stopped at...
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Day 7-Lassen National Park
We got up bright and early and explored around our campsite a little more…we both managed to get stung by yellow jackets on a bridge…so we hit the road. After a nice coffee break in Greenville we were...
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Day 8-McCloud, Millitary Pass, and home
We’d decided to head into McCloud for breakfast. My great-uncle, Burt Lakin, is a minor historical celebrity there, he’d been the mill supervisor and died fighting a fire there. We had breakfast at the...
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