Back roads ride with Carl while Jesi and Brent chase behind

 



A few months back Carl and I went for a motorcycle road along some of the back roads of the Oregon Coast Range.  Jesi and Brent followed in Brent’s sports car.  Jesi served as photographer for the expedition.  It took me a while to get these photos up but finally… here they are!


 

 

Carl rolling over the top of the hill with me out of sight around the corner.

 

 

Gliding around the corners.

 



 

 

Trying to look around the narrow one-lane trestle underpass to see if it’s all-clear for us to proceed.

 

A Honda and a Harley can get along after all!



Into the primeval forests of the coast range.

 

Down a mud road toward Siletz.

This feels like something out of The Road or maybe some post-apocalyptic view of the world.  Just two gray riders surrounded by a gray landscape.  I’m thinking about getting a print of this made and framing it.

Into the darkened woods and the unknown.

 

A visit with Kellen and Melibe

I went on a quick jaunt out to Toledo to see Kellen and Melibe.  Total distance was about 113 miles.  This was the first time that I had seen Melibe since Tunisia when I was traveling with my parents.  I know I saw Kellen since then but I can’t remember when the last time was we actually bumped into each other.  Hopefully it won’t be another five years until we see each other again!

I really need to start logging my rides more often.  My PC800 is now at 50400 miles.  It’s just finally getting broken in.

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Snowy Ride Up Marys Peak

This afternoon I took the motorcycle out with Christy to do a little ride.  We went up Marys Peak where we encountered snow on the road just past the first gate.  We turned around and headed back to town via Decker Road and Belfountain.  It looks like the top of Marys Peak will be off-limits to motorcycles for a while to come now.  The route was about 70 miles in total.

We turned around at a pull-out near a waterfall just after the first gate.  Only about 500 feet down the road there wasn’t any snow.

Christy fit in my passenger riding gear quite well.

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