We’re on the road!

Starbucks and Cary’s Shepard Pie … yum …

Thayer …

Bikes … we love caffeine!

Cary called me to join her at a lunch time concert at UCSF …

The Parnassus Campus is beautiful, ac was the music … and Cary, too!

Mixed some photos in of this morning … We are on our way to Benton Hot Springs with Thayer and Joan …

May means Mendocino! The plan this year was to meet Shawn up in Deer Valley, near Lake Pillsbury, on Wednesday …

Packing the bikes …

Cary was rocking her new Aerostich on her 1999 Honda VFR 800 …

Lagoda Road …

Cary in the yellow tube, with Captain Chuck, Baja Benny and little Ben …

Cary in the Stonyford Rodeo Grounds …

Our campsite under a huge Heritage Oak … We had maybe a dozen riders and four kids ages three to thirteen …

The Stonyford campfire … The Oakland Motorcycle Club puts on the Sheetiron 300 every year, and 500 riders showed up for the 2013 version …

The picnic site on East Park Reservoir … we saw a bald eagle with a fish in its claws, osprey and grebes doing their mating dance …

Becky, Super Sue and Rob …

Becky and Rob rode up on his hot-rod GS and camped with us … Rob’s bike was only running on one cylinder … he is an master mechanic, and fixed the bike after finding a spark plug wire that had burnt on the hot cylinder …

Ryan, Ben, John, Alicia and their three year old, Lilly …

The Murphy clan getting ready to ride …

We could not find the hose to inflate the Avon … Captain Chuck Wagon solved that problem, wolf-style!

Little Ben, ready to go fishing …

Cary ran over this rattle snake with her bike … He lost a bit of his rattle, but was acting pretty spry … we think he was no worse for wear …

Brian’s camping supplies … in his top-box cooler …

My friend Bart, making me a breakfast burrito in Deer Valley …

On the M3, above Lake Pillsbury …

A couple of views from Mt Hull … Lake Pillsbury in the distance …

Breakfast at Deer Valley … thanks, Shawn!

Zero-ton causeway over Cache Creek …

Lake Berryessa …

Knoxville …

Views along the road above Cache Creek …

Bear Valley from Walker Ridge …

French Ridge …

Pano from Mt. Hull …

We stopped by the club to watch MotoGP … pretty good turn out of race fans …

See you around the campfire …