It’s been awhile!

My loyal readers,

I’m sorry it’s been so long since I have written! Jim has been harassing me to write a post for weeks. My initial excuse was, hey, it’s winter, we’re not riding!

But it’s summer now! And we’ve done some trips. Let’s see, we did a trip to the Anza-Borrego State Park in February, and a trip to Milwaukee for Buell Homecoming the first weekend of June.

First, Anza Borrego. This state park is north of San Diego, where we were travelling to visit my sister. We decided to rent a bike in Escondido, at a dealership. Conveniently, there was one that has 2007 Uly for rent, so went there to pick it up.  The dealership was actually in San Marcos. From there, it was a mere 2 hours to the State Park.

Anza Borrego is known for its wildflowers. Unfortunately, we came out a bit too early for them this year, as there had been so little rain that nothing was in bloom.

The trip up was interesting. We went from San Diego, whee it was in the 70s, over the mountains to SNOW! Actual snow, within a hundred miles of San Diego. It was surreal.

The roads into the park are amazing.

The road leading into Anza Borrego State Park

The road leading into Anza Borrego State Park

This road is just past the snowy parts, which I unfortunately didn’t get a picture of. But it was freezing!

Anza Borrego has some amazing cacti and other plants, but everything was brown and dead. It was somewat eerie.

This is the most green we saw in Anza Borrego.

This is the most green we saw in Anza Borrego.

Some cool cacti

Some cool cacti

We didn’t spend long in Anza Borrego; it was pretty warm with all our gear on in the desert, and the sun was fierce. Plus we had to have the bike back in San Marcos by 4:30. I would highly recommend the trip though; the roads along the mountains there are wicked, with some crazy nailbiter curves and no guardrails.

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