Its California time!!

It’s time for the last of my 3 big adventures of 2022..on Monday 10th October I will fly out to San Francisco, USA, pick up a rented BMW F850GS and then ride a 2000 mile circular route, starting and ending in SF 👍😎

I will not be riding alone; one of my American buddies, Bo Harper, will be joining me! We met via our mutual friend Fred and all rode together when we did the tour of Rajasthan, India, back in 2019. We have kept in touch ever since and have been working on co-ordinating a ride in USA; unfortunately, Fred couldn’t make this trip. Bo is flying in from Chicago and also renting a bike for the trip.

After arriving in SF I will spend 3 nights initially at my son’s house in Walnut Creek, a short distance from SF and catch up with the grandchildren, whom I last saw back in January when they came over to the UK for Christmas.

On 12th Oct we will pick the bikes up from MotoQuest in SF and head South on the morning of 13th. My route has been planned to take in as many of the best biking roads and scenery as possible in NorthCal. We will take Mines Rd, which is a nice twisty road, over Mt Hamilton and then skirting San Jose, ride down to Monterey. From there 17 Mile Drive and Route 1 down PCH to Big Sur; continuing for about 100 miles before turning inland and heading for Sequoia National Park and then Kings Canyon in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The route will then head north through Yosemite National Park and on to Lake Tahoe; finally heading west across to Interstate 5 for a blast further north up to Klamath National Forest on the Oregon border. From here we will head back south on Hwy 96 and finally join Route 101, Coast Hwy at the quaintly named town of Eureka.

Further south after riding Redwood Hwy and Avenue of the Giants we will join Route 1 Coast Hwy (northern PCH) all the way down to San Francisco, then ride over the Golden Gate Bridge and return the bikes to MotoQuest on Treasure Island on 20th Oct

I will then spend a further few days with my son & grandkids, before flying back to UK on 23rd Oct.

The sun will be out in California and its going to be a great trip 😎 I’ll be taking loads of pics and on-bike camera footage which I’ll use to make a video of the trip highlights when I return. So stay tuned!!