Category Archives: Motorcycle Rides

This is to share stories from our motorcycle rides.

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Motorcycle week with best friends at Ponderosa – American River

Love our annual motorcycle trip with our best friends Scott and Diana Cross. This is our sixth year…we always have a great time.

The weeks adventure started by meeting Scott and Diana at Villa Toscano winery for a pasta lunch and wine tasting.  During the week Scott and Kelly played a round of golf and Diana and I had a pedicure…perfect. We took a few motorcycle rides. One ride was over 200 miles. We rode up to South Lake Tahoe and around Emerald Bay, beautiful. Another ride we went through Georgetown and up past Pollock Pines and stopped at a place called Icehouse. The inside of the restaurant/bar was covered in dollar bills….always something to look at on the walls.

Of course it was hot up here, so there was swimming in the pool and river. Played hours of dice and a game called “Shut the box”. Scott was able to shut the box…good job! We ate a lot of good food and had amazing company.

Scott and Diana cooling off in the river

Diana cooling off

Scott cooling off

Grilling Veggies for dinne

Red Mutt Wine for dinner…love the label

Beautiful healthy home cooked meal…nice job

Sushi Fish bowl

Sushi dinner

Motorcycle Ride

Getting ready for the ride

Nice…

Stumpy Meadows

Stumpy Meadows….peaceful

Interesting bar decorations….

Icehouse….look at all the money

Icehouse

Icehouse

Icehouse

Lake Tahoe Emerald Bay

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Sturgis South Dakota

Another beautiful day in South Dakota…heading to Sturgis…..it is off season, so the town is very, very quiet…

Sturgis South Dakota

We stopped at the visitor center in town and they do a lot more than just motorcycles…they also do a lot of different car runs too…like Mustangs, Corevettes and Camaro’s to name a few….it seems like it is a very busy town in the summer time….Everyone told us to drive through Vanocker Canyon….it is beautiful through the canyon…we can hardly wait to go back and ride the Harley on their beautiful country roads…nice easy roads…speed of 35 mph….perfect….of course it is always fun what you find on country roads…..

Standard Oil -- Love Em

Then we headed toward the town of Spearfish…through Spearfish Canyon…which has a beautiful river/creek running through it and rocks reaching for the sky…it was an awesome canyon run…It was fun to see their Bridal Veil Falls…it is a little smaller then the one in Yosemite…but still beautiful….

Bridal Veil Falls - South Dakota

Spearfish Rescue

After the Spearfish Canyon run…we made it to the town of  Spearfish…they have one of the oldest fish hatchery’s…it was amazing…here are a few of the trout in the pond….

Booth Fish Hatchery

We really enjoyed South Dakota and look forward to returning soon to continue to explore…we didn’t have time to make it to the Badlands…also Devils Tower is nearby too…next time…

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Motorcycles and Raw Oysters in the City

What a beautiful day for a motorcycle ride…the weather perfect, not to hot, not to cold….

I needed to get a stamp in my National Parks Passport book for the Golden Gate Bridge…today was the day…we did the 3 bridge bay loop…first bridge – Richmond-San Rafael…

Then the Golden Gate Bridge….it was beautiful crossing the bridge, so clear and sunny. We went to Fort Point and got my stamp…whoo hooo, then we took a nice ride through the city past Crissy field, down to Fisherman’s Wharf and ended at the Ferry Building. We made our way to Hog Island Oysters restaurant for lunch. We had beer, champagne, raw oysters and shared a grilled cheese sandwich. It was delicious! Service was great……..on our way out fo the farmers market at the Ferry Building we stopped and bought 2 beautiful steaks and some wild boar saugage to try…and so fancy cheese for a Sunday afternoon snack….then across the Bay Bridge for a nice ride home…and the final bridge for the day…the Carquinez Bridge…