3 It’s time to pack up the bikes and fly back to cold winters Europe. But, before we head home we went for a last blast in the SoCal desert. We had to look at storage units and since we were on the road we made a trip out of it, […]
Trip Diary
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2 After 10 days living at my friends Steve’s place in San Diego, doing short rides in the San Diego area, day rides in the hills and visiting the Long Beach motorcycle show, it was time for a proper ride. Our road trip might be over but we are not done […]
5 days in the desert, Nov 22-26
2 All good things must come to an end they say, and I guess it is true for our North American Road trip. After 223 days on the road and around 42,000 kilometers we are starting our last official road trip day although, when we woke up, we didn’t know that […]
Day 223, Lake Cuchina – Solana Beach (San Diego) 422kms, ...
2 After a nice breakfast we got going at a reasonable hour, as today’s plan was to see Hearst Castle, recommended to us by several other travellers. I arrived at the visitor centre early, and it was already quite busy. Veterans day meant lots of people were out doing things. We […]
Day 222, San Simeon – Lake Cuchina, CA, 255kms, Nov ...
3 We awoke nice and toasty in our large lodge room. Outside we had to dry our very dewy bikes off before we could pack our stuff and get going. We arranged to meet David at a funky, old wooden cafe (and lodge) for breakfast, so we showed up there at […]
Day 221, Big Sur – San Simeon, Nov 10th, 248 ...
2 Our hosts invited us for breakfast in Monterey so we (I) were forced out of bed a bit earlier than we normally would have and met them on Cannery Row, a trendy part of town. They gave us passes for the Monterey aquarium (normal admission $50!!!) and after breakfast we […]
Day 220, Carmel – Big Sur, Nov 9th
2 Oh how nice it is to wake up in a comfortable bed, in a room, have a shower and press a button to get coffee! All the little things everyone else just takes for granted! We walked into town to find breakfast, what we found was a very upmarket and […]
Day 219, around Carmel by the Sea
2 We had a long ride ahead back to the coast. Up at a reasonable hour and moving without real breakfast. We decided to avoid Fresno and its possible traffic so we took the country / farming roads to the south. Our route took us through California’s Central Valley again and […]
Day 218, Squaw Valley – Carmel by the Sea, 400kms, ...
2 We woke up in our nice comfy warm room, but had to emerge into the cold as we headed down to the restaurant for breakfast (5min walk). After breakfast, we decided to walk to the General Grant tree, in the Grant Grove of Sequoias not far from the village. A […]
Day 217, Kings Canyon NP – Squaw Valley, Nov 6th
2 Apart from a few raindrops, last night was rather warm and the weather in the morning was quite nice. Hard to imagine they had much snow up in the mountains above us but I went online to check the latest national park road conditions and nothing had changed there, “road […]