105°f to 55°f... Northern Cali Run

Day 1: Headed south on the 28 toward Quincy and cut some shortcuts to the 243/24/241 to the Mabton/Bickleton/Goldendale highway, then the 142 to the 14 and across the Hood River bridge to Oregon 35/26 South to Madras, Or.








Day 2: Headed South on the 97 and turned off at Crater Lake on the 138 Diamond Lake Highway because the 97 was not doing it for us and noticed my rear tire was experiencing major tread loss, so we headed over to Phoenix (between Ashland Medford) and Hansen's BMW for a new Metzler.

Day 3:  Hansen's BMW had the tire but their tech crashed his Ducati that weekend so I pulled off my wheel and had their jr. tech mount it for me, plus I saved $40 to boot. We shot down the I-5 from Medford (never again) and cut off at Mt. Shasta/89 and headed South to Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Coming out of the park it went up to 105°f as we entered Red Bluff, CA on the 36 West and decided we were not going to wait around for it to get hotter so we headed out on the roller coaster 36 West with Weaverville as our night stop. We hit the 3/299 and it got noticeably cooler as we wound our way into the mountains


Day 4: Winding our way down to the sea on the 299 West was beautiful and one of the best areas we had ridden through as we continually headed down out of the mountains and progressed down to 55°f as we hit the PCH 101 for a trip up "sunny?" California.

We hit the beach with the coastal fog rolling in...

Headed into Oregon and stopped for the night in Bandon.




Day 5: Began with another grey day in Oregon and 58°f as we headed North. It was nice to see my good friend Steve and his new 2010 Corvette, complete with a pressure sensing seat that equalizes the blood-flow to keep you from passing out on corners and acceleration.

We shot up the rest of Oregon and into Washington at Astoria and headed to Long Beach for the night

Day 6: Lft Long Beach and headed up the 101 to Raymond where we cut East on the 6 to Chehalis, then some back roads on the Johnson Highway South to the 508 East to Morton, the 12 over White Pass, some more back roads to Selah, through the Yakima canyon, Ellensberg to Wenatchee on the 97-2/97 and home.