by Chris Steeden | Jul 26, 2014 | America 2014, By Mel & Chris, California, Featured, Motorbike road trip USA, Nevada
We finally said goodbye to Lake Tahoe, passing through Truckee for a breakfast stop at Jax’s Diner. We would not hesitate to say it was the best breakfast we have ever eaten. Onto Reno for a one hour stop at the Circus Circus Casino where we blew four dollars in the...
by Chris Steeden | Jul 26, 2014 | America 2014, By Mel & Chris, California, Eats, Featured, Motorbike road trip USA, USA
One of the fun things we like to do on a roadtrip, is find resturants that are either quirky, or have a great location. Jax’s Diner – Truckee California: Best breakfast we have ever had – ever. In a wonderful art deco dine. Bubba Gump’s – Everywhere: Seafood...
by Chris Steeden | Jul 25, 2014 | America, America 2014, By Mel & Chris, California, Featured, Motorbike road trip USA, Nevada
Lake Tahoe – 6,225 ft elevation, 1oth deepest lake in the world at 1,645 ft, 505 sq. meters in area, located inthe Sierra Nevadas – boring, forget the statistics. If placed along side the lakes in Switzerland it would be an equal. A playground for the rich and...
by Chris Steeden | Jul 24, 2014 | America, America 2014, By Mel & Chris, California, Featured, Motorbike road trip USA, National Parks
Leaving Yosemite at the 10,000 ft Tioga pass it was rapid descent to 5,000 ft with an equally proportional ascent in temperature. Yesterday we exited the Yosemite National Park through the west entrance, we passed over Tioga Pass which was 10,000 feet in elevation....
by Chris Steeden | Jul 23, 2014 | America, America 2014, By Mel & Chris, California, Featured, Motorbike road trip USA, National Parks
We departed Carmel, again in the cool weather, following the road north, with the the sand dunes shadowing us for a while, then we headed East. We followed the highway through lush agricultural land till the GPS ” Missy ” thought we needed to travel the backroads,...
by Chris Steeden | Jul 22, 2014 | America 2014, By Mel & Chris, California, Featured
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” So wrote John Steinbeck, an author I first read as a teenage but for...
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