Nevada and Arizona

This is the longest I’d left it without posting an update on the blog. What happened?
Well Reno happened, and a lot of other things too.

We left South Tahoe in Thursday morning and crossed the mountains into Nevada. The scenery and vegetation changed straight away, and the temperature must have gone up about 10°C about as fast. Read on

Lake Tahoe

Today was pretty relaxed riding-wise as we only made the short trip from Tahoe City to South Tahoe.
The lake offers some beautiful views and the hotels are very confortable; it’s all very different and much more touristy and up-market than most of the places we visited to far.

I made the most of the opportunity to chill out here, while Nic went for a 3hr ride around the area. Tomorrow we’re off to Reno via Carson City and Virgina City. We chose the tackiest hotel we could find in Reno and I’m dying to get there and experience the kitsch madness of the mini-Vegas! Read on

Things I love about touring California

Today’s ride was fantastic but pretty uneventful. We stopped in a couple very nice towns on the way from Chester to Tahoe city, but that was about it.

We’re now in Tahoe, staying in a hotel with a ‘partial view’ of the lake. We had a few beers out on the deck, watching the sun set over the mountains across the lake, illuminating them in red and pink, and then pastels. Read on

Freedom Fries at Chester Air Attack Base

A few hours into the day I was wondering if I’d have much to write about.
The road from Klamath falls was great: dead straight, went up and down like a roller-coaster and we had it entirely to ourselves.
Great fun but not much to write home about. We made it to Mount Shasta, a nice little town at the foot of its namesake which is meant to be one of the highest mountains in the area. Read on

Crater Lake

So today we reached Crater Lake, the main reason we travelled up to Oregon.
I had never imagined the crater could be so immense, or the view of its abrupt mountainous rim so beautiful.
The whole thing is so dramatic and picturesque that its first sight knocked the wind out of me. Forced me to sit, silent and humbled.
We were lucky that it was very sunny and so the lake in the crater al the way down below was a rich mediteranian blue-green. Read on