Thursday in Idaho

We crossed into Idaho today and spent the most part of the day in Twin Falls looking at local attractions. First a bridge 482 ft. above the Snake river where guys were BASE jumping off of it. If you look close you can see the guy in the second picture. The first water fall we saw was the Shoshone Falls. Then the water falls that the city was named for although the local power company blocked off one of the falls for their hydroelectric generators. The last falls was just there as we rode out of the canyon.

Steve's pictures

Here are pictures Steve took. The first 5 are of an island he saw off the coast and after a closer look he saw Sea Lions on it. The rest are random shots.

More pictures

Here are more pictures from the past few days. The first ones were taken at the Golden Gate bridge. The rest were on the road through the forests and at some of our campsites along the way. The last one is Alcatraz island.

Catching up

We haven't had WiFi or cell service at the campgrounds we've stayed in the last 3 nights so I'll try and catch up on our trip so far. We left Salem Sunday morning and headed for the coast. Once we hit 101 we turned south and rode it to almost the California border that day. The next day we continued on and picked up California highway 1 and took it down near Jenner. Tuesday we continued on and rode over the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, took pictures and turned around rode back across and got out of town. Last night we ended up in north east California near Downieville on highway 49.

The pictures below are of the coastline, Redwood Forest, Golden Gate bridge and anything else I thought was interesting.

Leaving in the morning

Sunday morning we will head for the Pacific coast and start riding the 101 towards California. I don't know how far we will get every day. We had a good time here at the BMW MOA rally and met a lot of nice people from around the country and the world.
I should have pictures to post tomorrow.

MOA

We are at the BMW Motorcycle Owners Association rally for the rest of the weekend. Steve and I are now together and will be for the next 2 1/2 weeks. Still great weather.

Here is a picture of our camp at the rally.

Great ride today

Today I put on 500 + - miles and ended up in Bend, OR. I traveled through Lassen Volcanic Nat. Park which has some steam vents and bubbling mud pots like Yellowstone. Then through Crater Lake. Almost all the roads I took were perfect motorcycle highways with gentle 35-55 mile hour curves and plenty of elevation changes.

Tomorrow it will be an easy 100 miles over the mountains to Salem where I'll meet up with Steve. He is in Boise, ID tonight so he has a long ride tomorrow to Salem.

The first 3 pictures below we're taken in Lassen, the 4th is Mt. Shasta and the last 2 are of Crater Lake.

Another camp site

Here is my camp tonight. It's in the Donner Memorial State Park. This is where the famous Donner party survived  by cannibalism when they got trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains on their way to California in the winter of 1846.

I'm having a freeze dried dinner of beef stroganoff, or so it says on the package.

That brown metal box is where you are suppose to put your food at night so the bears don't get it . Comforting thought as I sleep in my nylon tent that a mosquito could break into.

A sign in the road

Fasten your seat belts it's going to be a "fun" road.

Yosemite Nat. Park

Here are pictures I took today as I went through Yosemite.

July 2013 trip

I'm headed to Salem, OR to attend the annual BMW MOA rally with brother Steve. After it's over we will ride down the Pacific Coast Hwy. to about San Francisco and then head East working our way to Colorado via Oregon, Idaho and Utah. We will meet our other brother Darryl err Kevin and Nate, Greg, Frank and Bruce in Ouray, CO. From there we will spend a week running around that state.

Here is a picture of my camp site on Sunday up in the Sierra Nevada Mtns.

Another ride

Steve and I are doing another little ride. Janet and I drove to her sister and Dads in Murphysboro, IL trailering the BMW. After a couple days visiting I took off on the bike and met Steve in Jackson, TN. From here we are going to watch a Pro Motocross race in Blountville, TN. From there I'm headed to Cedar Falls, IA stopping to see my cousin Bill Green near Princeton, IL along the way. When Janet is ready to head home I will return to Murphysboro and trailer up for the trip back to Arizona.

Today's my birthday

I took off today to ultimately end up in Moonshine, IL for a moon burger with Steve and Kevin along with hundreds of other motorcycle riders. After about 575 Interstate miles I'm spending this first night in Tucumcari, NM and am heading to Dallas, TX tomorrow to meet Steve and some other BMW K1600 riders.