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I Miss Beemerdons!
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beemerdons
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wheatonFJR
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RadioHowie
I Miss Beemerdons!
Hey-HEY-HEY!!
Don't be twistin' my wurdz!!!
Don't be twistin' my wurdz!!!
wheatonFJR
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RadioHowie
I Miss Beemerdons!
SOMEONE is "on the ball" today. 
beemerdons
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wheatonFJR
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FJR-RemingtonRider
Their Sunset / My Sunrise
Postcard worthy pics; awesome coastline..thanks.
TomInPA
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A better idea to ride down the coast. I think this is a lesson I an learn from
We are expecting clear weather for weeks to come, and no risk of washouts this year.. I think it's time to check out the south PCH.
Really enjoyed your pictures Sam. Amazing touch you have.
We are expecting clear weather for weeks to come, and no risk of washouts this year.. I think it's time to check out the south PCH.
Really enjoyed your pictures Sam. Amazing touch you have.
brick1
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Now that I have been there - seen it, breathed it, experienced it - I enjoy your photos even more. There aren't many corners that don't have post card quality scenery.
Have fun out there this winter.
Keep the photos coming!
PD
Have fun out there this winter.
Keep the photos coming!
PD
Not wanting to be a thread-whore and starting another thread about my time in Southern California. I will just continue that ride report here. Hopefully you will still come to read it!
(Mostly) End of Day's in Southern California - A motorcycle beach bum's report!
A few words and a few more pictures from my stay in Southern California, the end week of 2011. Not a whole lot of riding involved, just to and from the beaches. I would sleep in late, go out to lunch at some restaurants by the beach and then just be a beach bum for the rest of the afternoon, run on the beach and check out and flirt with the "ahem" scenery - the kind which would talk to me anyway..
Cardiff-by-the-Sea State Beach was my more often than not hang out spot. Great restaurants right across from the beach, not crowded and it is a pretty flat beach to run on and one could run for miles on the beach with the cliffs of Solano Beach on your left and the Pacific Ocean on your right at low tide. Just don't take a nap along the cliffs before high tide, or it might become a permanent nap..
These "birds" I didn't need permission to take pictures of..
They were pretty good runners too - over short distances..
Now you know, why I titled this (Mostly) End of Day's, because that is when I would start taking most of my pictures - at the end of the day..
Skimmers and Surfers..
Dive bombers .. I was lucky enough to get this shot off ..
The sun sets over the Pacific Ocean as seen from Cardiff-by-the-Sea Beach..well it actually sets behind the incoming fog. This was the story all week long. It would be a perfectly clear and sunny day, but as soon as the sun reach a certain point over the horizon - the fog would almost instantaneously materialize!
I did however, take one afternoon to ride down south to Point Cabrillo National Monument in the Point Loma area. Incredible panoramic views of San Diego from here. Lots of tourists as well. You know how much I love the crowds!
Cabrillo National Monument commemorating Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo as the first European to set foot on the West Coast of the then not yet United States in 1542.
Maybe on a ship not too unlike these ones..on another note, seriously as these two ships/boats crossed paths, I heard (or imagined) canon fire.
The old Point Loma Lighthouse is also nearby. I love photographing white buildings or structures in the late afternoon light.
The Whale overlook at Point Loma, although I didn't sight any migratory Whales off the coast. This Whale sculpture managed to catch my attention.
You can see the new Point Loma Lighthouse from the Whale Overlook near the Old Point Loma Lighthouse.
Bidding farewell to Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (don't you just love saying that?). I headed towards the Sunset Cliffs in San Diego. Where I found a young maiden waiting anxiously for her paramour to return from the seas.
The Sunset Cliffs..
...and as you were probably expecting. High surf!
The day ends and the sun sets over Sunset Cliffs and my FJR.
Now, I won't call myself a hippie - far from it, but one of the days I was in Southern California. I headed to the Self Realization Fellowship Meditation Center in Encinitas. Not sure what I realized while I was there, but as soon as I got there I did "realize" that I had forgotten to bring a hat. So there..
Some beautiful gardens to enjoy and meditate in at this place.
Beautiful flowers..this one blooms upside down!
Right side up for this one..
Streams with colorful fish..
... and a beautiful view of the ocean!
Afterwards it was time for some motorcycle meditation as I headed to the beach again. While there I found this young lady riding a Ducati Monster, who watched the sunset with me. On her request - no pictures of her, but here is a picture of her Ducati.
Another beautiful sunset. The last one of my vacation in Southern California..
The fog once again magically materialized..
Thank you for reading! Good night!
(Mostly) End of Day's in Southern California - A motorcycle beach bum's report!
A few words and a few more pictures from my stay in Southern California, the end week of 2011. Not a whole lot of riding involved, just to and from the beaches. I would sleep in late, go out to lunch at some restaurants by the beach and then just be a beach bum for the rest of the afternoon, run on the beach and check out and flirt with the "ahem" scenery - the kind which would talk to me anyway..
Cardiff-by-the-Sea State Beach was my more often than not hang out spot. Great restaurants right across from the beach, not crowded and it is a pretty flat beach to run on and one could run for miles on the beach with the cliffs of Solano Beach on your left and the Pacific Ocean on your right at low tide. Just don't take a nap along the cliffs before high tide, or it might become a permanent nap..
These "birds" I didn't need permission to take pictures of..
They were pretty good runners too - over short distances..
Now you know, why I titled this (Mostly) End of Day's, because that is when I would start taking most of my pictures - at the end of the day..
Skimmers and Surfers..
Dive bombers .. I was lucky enough to get this shot off ..
The sun sets over the Pacific Ocean as seen from Cardiff-by-the-Sea Beach..well it actually sets behind the incoming fog. This was the story all week long. It would be a perfectly clear and sunny day, but as soon as the sun reach a certain point over the horizon - the fog would almost instantaneously materialize!
I did however, take one afternoon to ride down south to Point Cabrillo National Monument in the Point Loma area. Incredible panoramic views of San Diego from here. Lots of tourists as well. You know how much I love the crowds!
Cabrillo National Monument commemorating Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo as the first European to set foot on the West Coast of the then not yet United States in 1542.
Maybe on a ship not too unlike these ones..on another note, seriously as these two ships/boats crossed paths, I heard (or imagined) canon fire.
The old Point Loma Lighthouse is also nearby. I love photographing white buildings or structures in the late afternoon light.
The Whale overlook at Point Loma, although I didn't sight any migratory Whales off the coast. This Whale sculpture managed to catch my attention.
You can see the new Point Loma Lighthouse from the Whale Overlook near the Old Point Loma Lighthouse.
Bidding farewell to Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (don't you just love saying that?). I headed towards the Sunset Cliffs in San Diego. Where I found a young maiden waiting anxiously for her paramour to return from the seas.
The Sunset Cliffs..
...and as you were probably expecting. High surf!
The day ends and the sun sets over Sunset Cliffs and my FJR.
Now, I won't call myself a hippie - far from it, but one of the days I was in Southern California. I headed to the Self Realization Fellowship Meditation Center in Encinitas. Not sure what I realized while I was there, but as soon as I got there I did "realize" that I had forgotten to bring a hat. So there..
Some beautiful gardens to enjoy and meditate in at this place.
Beautiful flowers..this one blooms upside down!
Right side up for this one..
Streams with colorful fish..
... and a beautiful view of the ocean!
Afterwards it was time for some motorcycle meditation as I headed to the beach again. While there I found this young lady riding a Ducati Monster, who watched the sunset with me. On her request - no pictures of her, but here is a picture of her Ducati.
Another beautiful sunset. The last one of my vacation in Southern California..
The fog once again magically materialized..
Thank you for reading! Good night!
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wheatonFJR
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wow.
Gurock
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I rode the FJR from Chicago to the San Diego Beaches at Labor Day. I only had an hour before dark, when I had to hide the bike at airport parking, so I could cage to Las Vegas with my 85 year old dad, who thought I flew in. Here was my memorial picture of the FJR at the beach in LaJolla
. The California coast is spectacular all the way from TJ to Northern California.
I just got back from riding from Chicago to San Diego again leaving Chicago on 12/24/11 and getting to San Diego on 12/27/11. I took the southern most route. I left Chicago on 12/23 at 3 PM and stayed first night in Cuba, MO, second night in Abilene, TX and third night in Las Cruces, NM getting to San Diego on the fourth night. I don't know if that trip counts. I left the FJR in my Chicago garage and took my 2004 Honda Silverwing. I spent a week in San Diego visiting pop admited to taking the bike and left the bike in his garage, flying home. This way I figured the Silverwing is in San Diego for visits.
I just got back from riding from Chicago to San Diego again leaving Chicago on 12/24/11 and getting to San Diego on 12/27/11. I took the southern most route. I left Chicago on 12/23 at 3 PM and stayed first night in Cuba, MO, second night in Abilene, TX and third night in Las Cruces, NM getting to San Diego on the fourth night. I don't know if that trip counts. I left the FJR in my Chicago garage and took my 2004 Honda Silverwing. I spent a week in San Diego visiting pop admited to taking the bike and left the bike in his garage, flying home. This way I figured the Silverwing is in San Diego for visits.
Gurock
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BTW the picture was taken by a nice young lady who I asked to take the picture for me. When I walked up to her and explained that I wanted a picture with my bike at the ocean as kind of the memory that the bike and I had just gotten there from Chicago, she walked over to a 20 year old Hardley down the way and wanted to take my picture with it. I looked at her without thinking and told her that the bike she was looking at would never make it there from Chicago, it'd break down before it got out of Illinois. Good thing the Hardley owner didn't hear me. I'm going to try the pic in full size.
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TomInPA
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You Bastard! Do you know how high you have set the bar for TR quality? :clapping:
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beemerdons
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I Miss Beemerdons!
Bokerfork
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Sam,
What more can be said that hasn't already been said.
+1 to everything.
Everything that is, except for Beemerdons assertion that he lives on the West coast.
Thanks for taking us along.
Mark
What more can be said that hasn't already been said.
+1 to everything.
Everything that is, except for Beemerdons assertion that he lives on the West coast.
Thanks for taking us along.
Mark
