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OK...keep up! This is going to be fast and furious.

Great.....................I guess I need to repeat it:

First, I want to pass on my sympathy and condolences to my longest running friend I have, Warren Gall. We have been friends (even though he won't admit it in public) since 1977! We were roommates in the Air Force when I was an E-2 just starting out and he was an E-3. He just got news his sister Pam passed away yesterday! Include his family in your prayers!

Sunday night was spent in Fortuna, CA. Sundays ride was chilly again but, no rain.

Monday we decided to take a loop around the "Lost Coast" of CA. You go through a city that has nothing but Victoriana houses. It was built by dairy farmers. The road as we say down south was "rough as a cob." But, worth every pot hole and dip. The beaches have black sand.



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We started on the north end and came back out on Hwy 1 on the Avenue of Giants. It is just hard to imagine a tree that is over 2,000 years old.



No, this is not a path...it is the acutal ROAD!

CA has some awesome motorcycle roads. I have to assume that they were all built under the GREATEST GOVENOR AND PRESIDENT of all times: Ronald Reagan! Unfortunately the liberals have taken over CA and now the roads are crap!





Continued all the way up the Ave of Giants until running back into Hwy 1. We stopped in Bodega Bay, CA. I was unaware that the Alfred Hitchcock's movie, The Birds was filmed there. Tippi Hedren the actress who starred in the movie comes back every year to sign autographs on July 4th at the hotel. Very cool!

We got up early this morning and rode into San Francisco. I just wanted to drive over the Golden Gate Bridge on my bike. It was pretty uneventful but, I can check that off now.



We left SFO and headed for Lake Tahoe. I could live here. We got to Lake Tahoe earlier than expected and decided to continue west around the lake. It is just an amazing place. Adam & Candace....I wish I had done this trip before you asked for my input on a honeymoon! This place would suit you two to a T!




For those who are old enough to remember Bonanza (My Dads favorite TV program on Sunday night)...well! Bonanza was filmed here. The Ponderosa is now a ski resort. In honor of my Dad...I am spending the night in Virginia City tonight. Very cool little western town. I am hoping Hop Sing gets up and makes breakfast.

Tomorrow we ride more east..Riding what has been described the loneliest hwy in America...Hwy 50 across Nevada. Yes Walt...I will be playing country music to get the full effect!

There are a lot of cattle farms out this way. Do you ever wonder if cows stand around and "chew" the fat vs the cud! I mean...does the rich cow look at the poor cow and go: "yep, I will be filet migon someday." And the poor cow goes..."me, I will be lucky if I make the McDonald's list." It would be depressing to be a cow. You figure the guy feeding you is really not doing it to be nice. What if cows went on a hunger strike? Oh well, that is my deepest thought of the day!

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Well, yesterday I finally made it to the end of my Ipod playlist. I decided to start with the A's and go all the way through. It took three weeks but, yesterday around five it made it to the end. Yes Walt, I am going to play it backwards so I get my house back, my truck back and wife (if I had one) back!

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Until we meet again,

Rick (MDD)