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I have to believe riding with one's children is one of the better thing to do with one's mc.

Happy Trails.

On ‎8‎/‎15‎/‎2018 at 9:26 AM, MaxSwell said:

I have to believe riding with one's children is one of the better thing to do with one's mc.

Happy Trails.

How true. When my daughter graduated a few years back I drove my Sabre to Las Vegas and flew my daughter there. I didn't want her to deal with the eastern seaboard traffic. We then drove to San Diego, then up the coast on rt 1 and 101 to the Olympic Peninsula, then up to the Canadian border. then down to 90, then 94 to northern Minn. Around the great lakes and up in to upstate NY and across the mountains and back to Maine.

She watched girls surfing in Mission Beach. North of LA we would pull off the coast road and head inland and have lunch at Farm stands, fruit, veggies, cheese, whatever was on offer. When I dragged my collector and peg in a corner on Rt 20, she didn't panic. When I stopped for a day just south of SF to work on the bike at a friends house, she took it in stride. We crossed the Golden Gate in the fog and later stopped at a quiet section of road for her to take some pictures of fur seals on the beach. In Northern Calf a buddy stopped by in the morning and took us to a stand of Redwoods well off the beaten path. We had to hike in for 20 minutes or so, but I will never forget the look on my daughters face when we got there. With a high wind warning and hundreds of Semis pulled off the road we crossed the Columbia river Bridge at a 30 degree angle, ill advised to say the least. We spent 3 days in pouring rain on the Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound before parking it up in Bellingham. I was sitting in the hotel lobby nursing a beer, having a talk with myself when my daughter walked by on her way to the pool. "Where are we going  tomorrow" Ummm, Montana, about 12 hours I replied. "OK" she said. Despite not having any dry gear for the past 3 days, she was undeterred. 

In 26 days we covered 7100 miles and she never complained once. To say we bonded on that trip would be an understatement. So Thank You Maxswell for your comment, it brought back so many good memories.