16th November 2022
Its nearly 4 weeks since I returned from California, my last big trip of 2022; and what a great ride it was, with lots of adventure along the way! Fantastic scenery from sea to mountains, great twisty roads without a pothole in sight, very little traffic away from the towns, lots of good on-bike footage and photos captured.
A few incidents, as usual, during the 2000 mile trip.. stopped by the National Park police for speeding and crossing double lines when overtaking; nearly running out of petrol miles from anywhere; then finishing off with a minor collision involving a truck and a car while lane splitting (filtering) on the San Fransisco freeway 30 mins from handing the rental bike back!
Coming home from this trip it took me a whole week to get through the 8hr time difference and have a full night’s sleep. I’ve been so busy ever since catching up with things that I haven’t found time to update the Blog, or put a YouTube video together..yet.
So, this post is just to give a taster of what is to come, I’ll do a proper job in the next few weeks..there’s lots to tell 🙂
John & Bo picking up our rental bikes in San Francisco.. BMW F850GS & R1250GS
Route 1, Pacific Coast Highway..riding right next to the ocean
Mountains & Canyons
We didn’t see a bear, but we did see deer and Big Foot!!
Lots of great twisty roads & remote places visited
More great scenery
2000 miles round trip..start and finish in San Francisco
I can recommend October as a great time to visit California..lots of sun, no rain. Can be chilly in the morning but up to 90f by lunchtime. I was really surprised how good the roads were, smooth surface, twisty and seem to go on for ever through great mountain & forest scenery. Our route was often very remote (California is big place) with no cellular signal and small one-horse towns along the way..we stayed at some “quaint” motels and met some interesting people along the way for sure; During the trip I was able to meet up with my buddy, Jay, whom I had met several years back on a riding trip to Myanmar..all in all this was a great adventure and the “incidents” along the way were all survived with only minor hassle.
So stay tuned, during the next few weeks I’ll work on putting the pics, video clips and on bike footage into a video and post on my YouTube channel youtube.com/@BigJohnMoto
Looking forward to the pics and video, not to mention the filtering incident.
Shame you couldn’t make the trip Fred. My cam battery ran out about 10 mins before the filtering incident and Bo didn’t have his on