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Title: January 2010 - Riding home from CA (finally got this one finished)
Post by: frankenduck on March 15, 2012, 07:32:06 PM: (http://home.comcast.net/~smithduck/tours/bmwm_winter09/bmwm4/bmwm4_maps/bmwmall_sat.jpg)

Click here to see the ride report (http://home.comcast.net/~smithduck/tours/bmwm_winter09/bmwm4.htm)
Title: Re: January 2010 - Riding home from CA (finally got this one finished)
Post by: BobZ(IL) on March 15, 2012, 08:41:07 PM: Is it my imagination or do you always avoid the Oregon coast on trips up and back. My riding buddies had to do
I-5 through OR last time. I h8 it. Miss the cheese curds.
Title: Re: January 2010 - Riding home from CA (finally got this one finished)
Post by: frankenduck on March 15, 2012, 09:20:35 PM: I've ridden the Oregon coast several times. The scenery is nice and all but I don't find the riding particularly thrilling. Also I usually ride to CA and back in the fall/winter/spring. Having everything between SF and Seattle be non-raining then is not so common so I focus my planning around NorCal being dry so that I can have fun on 101 and 1. I just slog it through the crud to/from Grants Pass or Yreka.

I-5 doesn't bother me. I just get the Ipod going, set the cruise control and kick back. I've also driven it numerous times so it goes by quickly and before I know it I'm in Grants Pass.

When I rode down in October taking I-5 to Grants Pass let me make it to camping on the coast at the northernmost spot on Hwy 1 in one day. The next morning I awoke to the surf and the knowledge that I'd be riding Hwy 1 the entire day. I live for days like that.

(http://home.comcast.net/~smithduck/tours/111019_oh1/pics/DSC01674.jpg)

When I ride home in early April I'll consider the OR coast since I haven't ridden it in a while but if it's raining then I'll just slab it to get home.
Title: Re: January 2010 - Riding home from CA (finally got this one finished)
Post by: frankenduck on March 18, 2012, 07:08:34 PM: Hey, BobZ:

Here's one in 09 where I couldn't find a tire in Eureka so I rode inland to Grants Pass, found a tire and then rode BACK to the Oregon coast and up to Tillamook:

(http://home.comcast.net/~smithduck/tours/bmwj/bmwj3_upcoast/bmwj3_map3.jpg) (http://home.comcast.net/~smithduck/tours/bmwj/bmwj3_upcoast/bmwj3_map4.jpg)

http://home.comcast.net/~smithduck/tours/bmwj/bmwj3_upcoast/bmwj3.htm (http://home.comcast.net/~smithduck/tours/bmwj/bmwj3_upcoast/bmwj3.htm)
Title: Re: January 2010 - Riding home from CA (finally got this one finished)
Post by: BobZ(IL) on March 18, 2012, 07:50:25 PM: That's what I'm talkin' about!
Title: Re: January 2010 - Riding home from CA (finally got this one finished)
Post by: orforester on March 19, 2012, 12:44:52 PM: I used to live in Myrtle Point, along Hwy 42. Great ride, nice curves got to watch out for those chip vans cutting corners.