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Big Guy rides the Left Coast - Day Five - El Granada, CA to San Luis Obispo, CA
Day 5 - 380 km - 6 and a half hours (excluding visit to Hearst Castle)The real Day 5 was a rest day so I will call my next day on the road day 5 to avoid confusion.After a nice coffee and breakfast I...
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Big Guy rides the Left Coast - Day Six - San Luis Obispo, CA to Lodi, CA
Day 6 - 470 km - 5 and a half hoursToday was a bit of a slow start after last night's beer fest - can't tolerate the brewskis like I once did! I had planned to take the longer, but quieter, route - by...
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Big Guy rides the Left Coast - Day Seven - Lodi, CA to Reno NV
Day 7 - 310 km - 6 hoursSo you might have been wondering, why did I go to Lodi in the first place?I had decided to make my trip into a circle trip so I went south on the coast and the return journey...
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Big Guy rides the Left Coast - Day Eight - Reno NV to Klamath Falls, OR
Day 8 - 409 kms - 5 hoursWas it all a dream?I quickly checked my wallet and there they were - 2 crisp 100 bills (name of president?) and various 20s.I felt pretty good - luckily they seriously water...
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Big Guy rides the Left Coast - Day Nine - Klamath Falls, OR to Yakima, WA
Day 9 - 600 km - 8 hoursToday was Bug Day. I had so many bugs on my helmet, on my windscreen, in my gloves, in the vents of my helmet… It was horrible!At the start of the day I wore my jacket without...
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Big Guy rides the Left Coast - Day Ten - Yakima, WA to Kelowna, BC
Day 10 - 530 km - 7 hoursIf yesterday was Buggy Day, then today was Insane Weather Day.I left Yakima after a great breakfast at the motel and had a fairly early start. That gave me lots of time to cope...
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Big Guy rides the Left Coast - Day Eleven - Kelowna, BC to Maple Ridge, BC
Day 11 - 370km - 3 and a half hoursAfter a rest day in Kelowna, visiting my daughter, I headed home from Kelowna.I've done this journey once before, when I had first bought my BMW, and I was looking...
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First Ride of Fall- Canyon to Coke
My friend Dale had been bugging me to go on a nice day ride. He only insures his bike for six months and his time was running out. As luck would have it, I had a fairly open weekend so a day ride was...
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Winter is done.... or is it?
To start things off, understand that I insure my scooter year round. On the west coast, we pride ourselves in our year round mild weather and I do ride my scooter locally a couple of days each week,...
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Oil light drama!
I had a terrifying experience this week. After a disgusting winter where I have had little opportunity to ride because of below freezing temperatures or torrential rain pour, I took advantage of the...
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Sunny Sunday Ride!
Today was the first sunny weekend day in a long, long time!I had originally made plans with my youngest but she had to work, so all of a sudden, I was free. I decided to take a ride out to Harrison...
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Spring Touring! Part 1 - Maple Ridge to Whistler
My friend, Dale, has been desperate to go on an long ride.And lately, so have I!.The weather here has been so wet and rainy all winter and spring that there just haven't been many opportunities for a...
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Spring Touring! Part 2 - Whistler to Penticton
Day 2 - Whistler to Penticton - 450 kmWe both woke up with just a touch of a sore head in the morning, but after a coffee and a light breakfast, we were ready to head on the road.Leaving Whistler was a...
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To Tofino..... and Back! In One Day!!!
This is one for the books.Last week my friend, Dale, and I decided to go for a bike trip this weekend. My only caveat was that we had to do it in one day.We looked at a few different locations...
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"When Smoky Sings" - Going to the Sun Scooter Trip - Part 1 - Maple Ridge to...
430 kmsA smoky view from the Diablo Lake Overlook - on the North Cascades HighwayAfter last summer's trip to California, I thought I'd scale back my annual scooter trip. My friend, Dale, was...
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"Bug Off!" - Going to the Sun Scooter Trip - Part 2 - Omak, Washington to...
470 kmClark Fork, MontanaI woke up to smokiness which matched my own fuzziness in the morning. Maybe that second beer was a bit strong...I checked out rather late (about 9:00) and headed to Starbucks...
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"THE ride!" Going to the Sun Scooter Trip - Day 3 - Libby Montana to...
400 kmView from the Goring to the Sun RoadAround ten years ago, I went with five other guys on a cycling trip where we started in Fernie, BC, rode to Alberta, down to Montana, through Glacier National...
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Yellowstone Ride - Day 1 - Maple Ridge to Penticton. - 360 km
Dale, outside of Princeton, makes a questionable decision...Time to dust off the blog....So after I had the 20, 000 service on my BMW C600 as well as new tires and new brake pads (all in, more than...
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Yellowstone Ride - Day 2 - Penticton to Spokane - 350 km
The American Okanogam After a lovely breakfast at Granny's of freshly baked scones and cut up fruit (a breakfast that would stand head and shoulders above anything else for the rest of the trip), we...
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Yellowstone Ride - Day 3 - Spokane, Washington to Missoula, Montana - 350 km
The sun beaming on Wallace, Idaho.After an OK breakfast in Spokane, we packed our stuff, checked out and headed up the road.Today was a three state day - Washington to Idaho to Montana. There were a...
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Yellowstone Ride Part 4 - Missoula, Montana to Idaho Falls, Idaho - 550 km
The road to Wisdom.For those who are not aware of US geography, the state of Idaho is skinny at the top (it's called the panhandle) near Canada and gets wider as it goes south. As a result, we ended up...
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Yellowstone Ride Part 5 - Idaho Falls to West Yellowstone - 350 km
View from the rest stop on Highway 26We started off with what we would soon find out was a typical Super 8 Motel breakfast. There were a variety of items but we would go for the English muffin...
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Yellowstone Trip Part 6 - Touring Yellowstone Day - 250 km
Smokin' Steps at Mammoth Hot SpringsEven when we stay in one place, we move around!Today was our 'staying in Yellowstone day'. We decided to take advantage of this wonderful park and spend the day...
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Yellowstone Trip - Part 7 - West Yellowstone to Helena, Montana - 370 km
Thanks to Dale's internal and external alarm clocks, we got up really, really early this morning. How early? It was so cold that there was a build up of frost on my seat. How cold? It was 2°C. when we...
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Yellowstone Trip Part 8 - Helena, Montana to Pincher Creek, Alberta
After leaving our Super 8 Motel (after an exciting breakfast of egg disks, super gristly bacon, and waffles- I actually just had toast) we headed onto I-15 which was a pretty nice road, considering...
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