Since
Mike has a cabin at Big Bear and we wanted to get started early without
having to ride 60 miles of Freeway, we spent the night in Big Bear. Starting
down out of Big Bear at 7:00 AM on a cold Friday morning. 34 degrees F that's
Mike there warming his hands on my heated grips. Mike knows this are very
well so we took a short-cut and quickly dropping down out of the mountains
to the desert floor and into the town of Hesperia were we stopped for breakfast.
Taking off from breakfast we really did not have anything mapped out so
we just took the most direct route to Barstow were we gassed up. Nothing
much on this section, except for a herd of wild dogs, which we came upon
when I had slowed down to check our directions on my GPS. They were about
20 yards off of the road and looked like they meant business, especially
when I slowed down and the biggest one came running after me. Luckily they
top-out around 30 to 40 mph, so we easily left them in our dust. Just out
of Barstow we hit a dirt road heading north east. The desert had gotten
allot of moisture this year and the vegetation and wild life was abundant.
The scenery was spectacular but there were lizards all over the trail, they
sure were quick, but just not quick enough to get out of the way of a motorcycle
doing 50 MPH. So after trying to dodge the 100th lizard on the trail I stopped
trying to avoid hitting them. I felt bad for them but given the choice between
me crashing trying to avoid hitting them or running over them, I choose
not to crash. Sorry lizards.
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