Trading in the FJR...

[GunMD]

It's that time of year again (spring break) and my eleven year old son is visiting for the week. We took a great little lunch ride down to Los Algodones Mexico yesterday and had some kick ass tacos. (A ride report on that trip is pending...stay tuned for pics and narrative early next week.)

But tomorrow is an exciting part of his visit. We're off to go camping in the Gold Park Mining District (near Joshua Tree National Park just outside of Twentynine Palms, CA). I'm gonna head over to Desert Cycle Works (my favorite motorcycle shop) and drop off my FJR for new tires. I'll drop off the FJR and leave in a Yamaha Rhino owned by Dawn, the shop's owner and a good friend of mine. Then it's off to Gold Park for camping with my son. We'll spend most of the day setting up camp and exploring the surrounding BLM land. Temps have been in the mid to high 70's all week and tomorrow should be much the same. A little fire wood, some Coke for the little guy and a few cold Stone IPA's for Dad and that's a successful day. Good times.

I'll take some pics of our exploring and share them here when we get back (unless you phuckers just don't care).

:yahoo:

EDIT: The camping trip story can be found HERE

 

[Checkswrecks]

Great picture.

Get outa the way, he wants to RIDE, Dad!

 

[ionbeam]

Enjoy your week out! I love Joshua Tree National Park with the very different upper and lower desert areas. If you travel through Joshua and come out on Rt 10, be sure to go to Shields Dates in Indio. The dates are excellent, the Date Shakes are better than you might think and then you can chill out in Shield's movie theater and watch The Sex Life of a Date. Get your son started with a good "G" rated presentation

 

[Fred W]

Good on ya Gunny. These will be times permanently etched on both of your minds.

Have a blast.

 

[teerex51]

Have fun both of you, Gunny, and take a lot of pics B)

Stef

 

[GunMD]

Well, that was fun.

Here's a little write-up about our camping trip (complete with grammatical errors, I'm sure...I was pretty tired when I put this together last night).