09-11-01 Queen Crimson's Birthday Ride

[johnny]

time to slabb to the interesting stuff... leaving wilmington ca at first light...



we found these interesting things in santa paula...

crazy tree...



perfectly polished floating ball... very interesting...



and the moto riders doing their public service...



ca 33...

















vroom... vroom... vroom... i wanna be a pilot car driver...





follow me... now 1st in line... the road was wide open...
































onto lockwood valley road...





queen crimson on the bavarian pigg...



























motosaurus on the r1200rt...





o my... new asphalt... cerro noroests rd... or there abouts anyway...









one of my favorites roads of all time... wow...







the central valley smog layer...



getting on with getting on... this is the perfect 2 up motobrick road...









we rolled ca 166 west...



towards tepusquet rd... shedding layers...



what a beauty of a motoroad road... tepusquet + foxen...













we grabbed some tacos in buelton... then rolled santa rosa rd...









then rolled to jalama beach...













on pashnit rider... queen crimsons 29th birthday... nov 1 2009...

here is most of day 1... the rest of day 1 plus day 2 are forthcoming...

this is known as valentino rossis driveway... ca 229 and ca 58 near san luis obispo ca...























here they are... 4 bags of meat... 1911... micki owrstrich... rider... queen crimson...









here be the rest of the story...

we rolled into the far western tavern in guadeloupe after dark... the goal was to sample the world famous santa maria bbq that bobby flay chronicled on the food channel...



kris had the sweetbreads...



micki and ed had the fillet...



i had the signature ribeye which they unsuccessfully tried to pass off as santa maria bbq...



after a well disserved night of rest and relaxation we rolled through the wineries to ca 229 where we met up with 1911... after our rendezvous with 1911 we rolled ca 58 towards towards our beloved bakersfield... home of buck owens... merle haggard... and bags o meat...

this is the world famous ca 58...































we rolled thru taft to ca 166  on our way to lebec to slabb the 5 to the 405...



climbing cerro noresto... yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaa... a must ride... we did... both ways in two days...













there are cones... and there are silicones...



the steaming beaver restaurant at pine lodge...

m o salad...



rider burger...



birthdaygyrl burger...



so we slabbed it home... once we got to the 405 it quickly turned  into a parking lot... even the blimp was parked...



more later...

j o