On this day, I rode from my camp in Burlington Campground onto the Avenue of the Giants and Mattole Road, riding through Humboldt Redwoods Sate Park.
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This vide is one of three videos covering California Loop 2018 Day 3
This video focuses on my ride over the Golden Gate Bridge and some of the Recreational Area.
Video is taken from the second half of the video, California Loop 2018 Day 2 Part 1.
On Day 2 Part 2, I ride from the Golden Gate Bridge – San Francisco north on US Highway 101 thru the California Redwoods and end the day at Burlington Campground in Humboldt State Park – Weott, CA.
I camped 3 nights at this campground nestled among the California Redwoods.
On day 3, I explored the Lost Coast and on day 4 rode the Avenue of Giants south to Legget, CA to ride thru Chandler Tree.
On this day I rode north from Salinas, CA to San Francisco for breakfast, photos at Twin Peaks Park, and finally rolled across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Allot of riding through residential areas offers up the opportunity to view some of the unique architecture in San Francisco.
Riding across the Golden Gate Bridge is always enjoyable. As the marine layer rolled in, I rode trough the wisps of clouds as they rolled over the hilltops on Conzelman Road.
Being Memorial Day Weekend, the bridge was quite crowed and lots of traffic on the bridge itself and in the Golden Gate Recreation Area. I did not spend allot of time around the bride wanting to make camp before nightfall. Looks like a good excuse for another future vacation to explore San Francisco in more detail. 🙂
California Loop 2018 Day 1 Part 3 – I continue the ride down the mountainside on Nacimiento-Fergusson Road to Pacific Coast Highway.
The views of the Pacific ocean while descending the mountain are breathtaking. Pacific Coast Highway was closed south of this junction point due to road damage from winter storms and mud slides, a frequent occurrence on the coastal highway.
I rode PCH (Pacific Coast Highway / CA-1) north through Big Sur, where this video ends, and completed Day 1 of this trip grabbing a motel in Salina, CA.
Day 1 was a great start to this trip with California offering up some epic scenery and entertaining roads to ride.
A portion of Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) California Highway 1 was closed. This is often the case as winter storms wreak havoc on roads on the coast, especially PCH CA 1 as this road hugs the California coast line (which is also why this road is so awesome). My original trip was to ride PCH from Morro Bay (I have ridden this section before) to Salinas, CA. Just north of Ragged Point the road was closed.
My detour route had me ride north on US 101 from Santa Margarita, CA (instead of heading south briefly to pick up California Highway 1 (PCH) in San Luis Obispo. I rode US Highway 101 north to Bradley, CA and then road west on Jolon Rd (Monterey County Road G18) through Fort Hunter Leggitt and onto Nacimiento-Fergusson Road. This road was very narrow but had some great curves and was engulfed in the Los Padres National Forest trees creating tunnels of trees, along with some brief epic views of the surrounding mountains.
The only downside was the considerable amount of oncoming traffic that was diverted from PCH. There were several curves where I came to a near stop hugging the right portion of the road as much as possible as some drivers were less than generous with road sharing. Regardless, this detour actually worked out great as this road is occasionally closed due to Army training.
According to the Wikipedia article linked below, In January 2021, the road was washed out due to the impacts of the Dolan Fire and closed. It is not expected to reopen until at least December 2023
Considering I had ridden the original planned route a few times, this was a great opportunity to ride a new and scenic road!
Wikipedia has more information on Nacimiento-Fergusson Road and the region.
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This video covers a portion of Day 1 from Buttonwillow, CA to Santa Margarita, CA riding on California Highway 58. The scenery was very nice including the California golden rolling hills and a very nice (very freshly paved) winding CA-58 Highway.
California Loop 2018 is a motorcycle trip I rode from May 26th 2018 to June 4th 2018 (9 months after my motorcycle accident where I broke my leg and six months after I purchased Dexter, my 2005 Harley Davidson Ultra Classic).
This trip was tour of some of the many iconic areas of California (there are so many). Trip started from Lake Elsinore, CA riding Interstate to Buttonwillow, CA where I catch CA Highway 58 to Santa Margarita, CA and jump on US Highway 101 and roll north to Humboldt Redwoods State Park near Weott, CA where I camped for a few days and explored the unpopulated areas of the Lost Coast.
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This video wraps up the Utah Loop 2019 Motorcycle Trip. Today I rode from Zion National Park to Lake Elsinore, CA. Mostly on Interstate 15.
This trip had some major setbacks starting on day 2 with the trip not resuming until day 5 due to repeat mechanical breakdowns and the long distance tow from Ely, NV to Washington, UT. The 3 day trip stoppage forced a change in plan from traveling to eastern Wyoming to adding one vacation day and exploring Utah. While I greatly dislike being stranded roadside, the diversion proved to be worthwhile as Utah is an awesome state to ride motorcycle.
The scenery, nice roads, and curvy roads made Utah my favorite state to ride in, thus far.
Ride through Zion National Park on my way back home to California (where I lived at the time).
I ride through Zion National Park in the late evening on Day 9 of my Utah Loop 2019 Trip
I depart my campsite at Hi-Road Campground, which is just outside of Zion National Park. It was interesting riding through the park so late in the day as the setting sun makes interesting lighting contracts on the canyon walls and mountain tops.
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