Sunday, September 27, 2009

Photo Gallery

Well, not much of one, but I'm just learning. Embedding a slide show was kind of tricky.


Anyway, here's a couple of shots we took when Gordon was flying out of San Francisco for Munich. To follow his adventures see his blog; View from Muenchen


Mom and Gordon

And Gordon and me.


All this in preparation for our big
trip to Australia in Sept!


Monday, September 21, 2009

The first entry.

Took the opportunity of a free weekday to ride my DL650 to Lake Tahoe, via Placerville and US 50. Good trip, had a quick bite at the Truckee McDonald's where I met a chap who was riding from Montana to Hanford. He mentioned slow traffic on 80.

After lunch, I went up Westbound 80 and, sure enough, hit really slow traffic. I was able to lane split quite a bit though, and the traffic cleared after Donner summit.

Should have taken the old highway...would have missed all the traffic.


Here's a shot from HWY 50 overlooking Lake Tahoe waaay in the distance.

The weather up was very good, almost cool in the shady spots, with a bit of gusty wind over the higher terrain on 50. But it got hotter and hotter as I descended from Donner. Colfax, surprisingly,  seemed like the hottest spot of the whole trip.