Summitheart

Northern Baja and into California and towards home - Last Trip Post We changed our plans and decided against the back road short-cut. With the amount of rain that the area had been getting over the past week the only safe place to ride was on pavement. Even the pull-offs on the side of road were treacherous with inches of silty mud. I was even worried about the couple of miles of construction I knew we had to go through leaving Ensenada. Turned out the construction was not a problem, so we rode straight thru to Tecate and a little further before stopping at a family resort in the mountains. Another totally empty resort meant a great deal on a cute little cabin WITH heat and hot water. Getting there is when our plans to go ... read more

Finally - “the” Beach - Playa el Burro We woke up early - and suddenly by a hundred or so birds - pelicans, sea ducks and NOISY seagulls, feeding on little fish in schools along the shore - 20 feet or so from our palapa (that is a palm topped, open sided shelter from the sun). To be honest, I thought they were attacking the two food bags I had hung up on one of the palapa poles closest to the shore, it was so close. We totally relaxed into a lay about day. After Dainius took about 500 pictures of pelicans feeding. During the day we met our great neighbours -local residents who live here for six months of the year. They loaned us two beach chairs, a little table, and a cooler to keep ... read more

Guerrero Negro to Bahia de Tortugas Date: ‘not sure, it was a week or so ago, and we are really starting to lose track of time - FINALLY!‘ We did go on a whale watching outing in a panga from Guerrero Negro. It was a little expensive, but so great to spend four hours on the water with the wind and sea spray kissing our faces. And we did see whales. None were breaching but they were impressive. It’s too bad all the pictures just look like big rough rocks in the water. I took a couple of teeny movies with my camera, they give a better sense, but just barely. We left Guerrero on the 24th of January, leaving early anticipating a long,100 km stretch of dirt road before the end of the day. There ... read more

Yeehoo, January 7th was our first full day on the bikes - and a best day ever! Cool this morning, leaving Monterey, sort of like a good summer day in Yukon. Got our first view of ocean waves, with a kid walking barefoot in the surf, then saw the sign that all motorcyclists love, the twisty black line on an orange sign with “next 75 miles” after it. Really twisty, we went along the Big Sur coast, past Esalen, surf crashing against rocks, 20mph curves after curves after curves. We were driving in an ocean fog, enough visibility for driving but not for vistas beyond a half a kilometer. About a third of the way in, just after Alicia, the curves smoothed out a bit, allowing more smooth transition and steady speed one to the other, ... read more