This next year marks the one year celebration that I've lived past 30.
With a teaming death wish for fast long motorcycle rides, and a fearless attitude, I am thinking that it's time to get out on the open road for some solo adventuring once again. Last year I took a nice long leisurely ride from Arcata to San Diego and partied up and down the west coast of California. It was fun, couch surfing, just me and Lawless.
So this year for my birthday I've gotten the trip planned out to head to Canada. I started the thought process a month or so back, when I was in San Diego, and the idea of just hitting the road up the western US coast to do some border touching was the best thing that had sparked my synapses since I had the horrible idea to move to San Diego 8 months earlier. (sometimes you just know when a town isn't for you)
So I was forced to move to the foothills when I was kicked out of my sisters place, due to inconvenient/colliding schedules on my part. Namely motoring up at all hours of the night isn't conducive to a working couples sleep schedules. So you gotta roll on when you gotta roll.
Here I am, one week away from my birthday and the Canada ride has started working itself out in my calendar of accomplishments. I first have planned what towns I have my buddies in all along the way and then I planned how long I want to stay in each town. The more friends I have in each town will dictate how long I pause so as to get all my necessary celebrating in, appeasing the masses, and not leaving any beer untapped, or photos unsnapped.
I'm heading from Sonora, CA for San Francisco, CA on Saturday July 17. (my family is helping me celebrate my birthday in Sonora before my ride on Friday the 16th.
From San Francisco I head to the Russian River for a night or two on Monday the 19th, my actual birthday.
Then I'll leave the Russian River for Arcata, making it by Wednesday because I'm handling some business inspections on Thursday.
I'll hang out in Arcata between the dates of the 21st to 26th. I figure a good long weekend in Arcata should suffice.
From Arcata, I'll head up to Oregon and stop at a family members house in Coquille, OR, may stay a night or two, and may try to find some small work in town. But it's going to be my first time there. I'm pretty excited to see a new town and explore some new roads.
From Coquille, OR, I'm heading for Portland, where I have a handful of really great friends that I'm dying to see, which have been begging me to get up to PDX for some time now. I'm thinking a good week in PDX should get everything done. Maybe some new artwork, maybe a new gf, one can only hope. But I miss the place, and want to get up there while the gettings good.
From Portland my destination is Seattle. I've had a friend doing some modeling up there, and well figure she should have a couch or two for my little ass to crash on. This will be my first time in Seattle too, and I'm really looking forward to experiencing it. Catching some nightlife, and social scene.
And well from Seattle comes the celebratory border jumping into Canada and on to Vancouver, BC. I've never been to Vancouver, only Okanagan where my buddy and I stayed for a week one winter and snowboarded Great White. I've had a couple friends tell me they know people in Canada, so I'm going banking on some buddy references at this point. See it's all coming together so fast and I'm sooo more than ready to hit the road. Hell, the road is my home. Gotta get back.
Once I head back, I'm going to take the 5 all the way down to the 4 to the 49 and back to my parents in Sonora. Where hopefully I'll have a job waiting for me...hopefully. And this is all a part of the adventure. Never knowing what's next. :)
I hear the weather is amazing, and it should remain amazing. I've ridden in every type of weather and road condition, and I'm prepared for whatever twists and turns this little trip has for me. I anticipate i should be back sometime around the early parts of August.
So let me sign off with something I mentioned earlier and I'm going to quote myself "let no beer go untapped, and no photo (or bra) go unsnapped" haha had to add that one in there. ;)
~Just one Dirty Biker.
With a teaming death wish for fast long motorcycle rides, and a fearless attitude, I am thinking that it's time to get out on the open road for some solo adventuring once again. Last year I took a nice long leisurely ride from Arcata to San Diego and partied up and down the west coast of California. It was fun, couch surfing, just me and Lawless.
So this year for my birthday I've gotten the trip planned out to head to Canada. I started the thought process a month or so back, when I was in San Diego, and the idea of just hitting the road up the western US coast to do some border touching was the best thing that had sparked my synapses since I had the horrible idea to move to San Diego 8 months earlier. (sometimes you just know when a town isn't for you)
So I was forced to move to the foothills when I was kicked out of my sisters place, due to inconvenient/colliding schedules on my part. Namely motoring up at all hours of the night isn't conducive to a working couples sleep schedules. So you gotta roll on when you gotta roll.
Here I am, one week away from my birthday and the Canada ride has started working itself out in my calendar of accomplishments. I first have planned what towns I have my buddies in all along the way and then I planned how long I want to stay in each town. The more friends I have in each town will dictate how long I pause so as to get all my necessary celebrating in, appeasing the masses, and not leaving any beer untapped, or photos unsnapped.
I'm heading from Sonora, CA for San Francisco, CA on Saturday July 17. (my family is helping me celebrate my birthday in Sonora before my ride on Friday the 16th.
From San Francisco I head to the Russian River for a night or two on Monday the 19th, my actual birthday.
Then I'll leave the Russian River for Arcata, making it by Wednesday because I'm handling some business inspections on Thursday.
I'll hang out in Arcata between the dates of the 21st to 26th. I figure a good long weekend in Arcata should suffice.
From Arcata, I'll head up to Oregon and stop at a family members house in Coquille, OR, may stay a night or two, and may try to find some small work in town. But it's going to be my first time there. I'm pretty excited to see a new town and explore some new roads.
From Coquille, OR, I'm heading for Portland, where I have a handful of really great friends that I'm dying to see, which have been begging me to get up to PDX for some time now. I'm thinking a good week in PDX should get everything done. Maybe some new artwork, maybe a new gf, one can only hope. But I miss the place, and want to get up there while the gettings good.
From Portland my destination is Seattle. I've had a friend doing some modeling up there, and well figure she should have a couch or two for my little ass to crash on. This will be my first time in Seattle too, and I'm really looking forward to experiencing it. Catching some nightlife, and social scene.
And well from Seattle comes the celebratory border jumping into Canada and on to Vancouver, BC. I've never been to Vancouver, only Okanagan where my buddy and I stayed for a week one winter and snowboarded Great White. I've had a couple friends tell me they know people in Canada, so I'm going banking on some buddy references at this point. See it's all coming together so fast and I'm sooo more than ready to hit the road. Hell, the road is my home. Gotta get back.
Once I head back, I'm going to take the 5 all the way down to the 4 to the 49 and back to my parents in Sonora. Where hopefully I'll have a job waiting for me...hopefully. And this is all a part of the adventure. Never knowing what's next. :)
I hear the weather is amazing, and it should remain amazing. I've ridden in every type of weather and road condition, and I'm prepared for whatever twists and turns this little trip has for me. I anticipate i should be back sometime around the early parts of August.
So let me sign off with something I mentioned earlier and I'm going to quote myself "let no beer go untapped, and no photo (or bra) go unsnapped" haha had to add that one in there. ;)
~Just one Dirty Biker.
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