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On the road again, Reno and Highway 80

On the road again, Reno and Highway 80

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...
California, Eats

California, Eats

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...
Lake Tahoe, Motorbike Roadtrip USA

Lake Tahoe, Motorbike Roadtrip USA

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...
Motorbike Roadtrip Tioga Pass to Incline Village

Motorbike Roadtrip Tioga Pass to Incline Village

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....
Yosemite National Park — Motorbike Road Trip USA

Yosemite National Park — Motorbike Road Trip USA

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,...
Cannery Row & John Steinbeck

Cannery Row & John Steinbeck

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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