La Honda Drive

Finally, I got a chance to take my crotch rocket out on the hills. Decided to do the drive down Hwy 84 to the Hwy 1, despite the forecast for "am showers".

Sure enough, as I get my bike on the 84, sun showers :( And if you didn't know, that's when the roads are most likely to be slippery (cause the light rain bring oil out of the road - but heavy rain washes it away). Anyhow, I get into it... and the showers stop.

Boy, what a fuckin ride!! Dude, most of the curves had limits of like 20 mph. 90% of the time I was way under 45 mph! The curves & turns were sick! And what a sense of achievement once I got to Hwy 1. Driving down the 1, the waves on the shore were fuckin' amazing! Wave after wave, breaking, crashing, retreating. Then I headed back towards the bay... but halfway through I took a wrong turn and instead of taking another bike route, I ended up back on La Honda (hwy 84). Oh well...

There was this one section, where briefly through the shrubs & trees you got a view of the ENTIRE BAY!! I'm taking, I'm at the top of the mountain & I can see the mountains at the other end of the bay & in between is the bay, and all the frigin hi-tech companies of Silicon Valley! If I had stopped I probably could have id my company's building. Damn, that was sick.

If that wasn't good enough... as I started to head back, I realize I'm taking the turns in a higher gear - can't remember how fast I was going... but at one point, I'm in a lean and all of a sudden I hear this grinding sound - grrrrrr - I'm like WTF?? Damn!! I'm leaning so fuckin far on my bike that my FOOT IS SCRAPING THE GROUND!!! Damn!

After I got home - when to work for some tool - then came home & finally did an oil change on my motorcycle. The engine was still hot & the oil just came pouring out. I love working with my hands. You get this sense of satisfaction after your job is done! All the dirty & grim all over my hands, wiping the oil on my wife-beater... argh, argh, argh... the sign of a man! lol.

Even had a guy check out my truck... but don't know if he'll buy it. :( Anyways, it's 7:30... don't know if I should finish packing & stay home tonight - or head out to the club in downtown Sunnyvale... I've been here a year & haven't hit the clubs down there yet! But I do have mad shit to get done tomorrow... so I really got to decide if it's gonna be a productive weekend or a party weekend... I'm leanin' to the 1st cause I'm movin out on Monday! Plus, I want to do another ride to Mt. Hamilton tomorrow morning. We'll see how things go...