If you ride a motorcycle, and have never been to California, you are truly missing out on one of the best places in the United States to ride a motorcycle. PERIOD.

Here a few photos from various places along a ride I took yesterday from Santa Cruz, CA, to Lucia,CA:

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Being an MC ride, there are few opportunities along the way to take photos, but amongst the group we did mange to snap off a few.

We first gathered here at Lighthouse Harbor Grille in Moss Landing:

We met up with the remainder of the group in Carmel.

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We gassed up the bikes and prepared ourselves (with more caffeine of course) for what was about to transpire. Rich (on the 916) took the time to model his man-sack for us. I hear it’s last word in manly riding apparel for the Central Coast.

From here on our, it was Ride like the Wind all the way to Lucia. We did stop once to regroup, turn on the video cameras and discuss the awesomeness so far:

The first of many great surprises on this ride, was our lunch destination in Lucia. Ah.. what a view! What a great place to relax after a spirited ride up Hwy 1.

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Return ride Video:

Next stop. Nepenthe in Big Sur. Despite a hair raising incident with an inattentive tourist in a rental car, we made it there without obvious injury. Despite the fact that the highway was the destination and the star of the day, this pulled off a pretty convincing 2nd place.:

What a fantastic ride today. Perfectly organized (or properly disorganized?) group. It’s always a blast to right with these guys and gals. Looking forward to our next epic excursion!!

PS. Video will be added to the blog as soon as I can clear 132 GB of space on a computer, somewhere.