Shakespeare/Kick-in-the-Rear

(wherein our weary travellers find their way home again, home again jiggity-jig)

Day IV:

We awoke the next morning (Monday) to find that things had changed considerably overnight. Gone was the snow, gone was the rain, gone was the cold. In its place were large fleecy white clouds and blue skies.

-da sun wuz out and da birds wuz singin'

We ate a leisurely breakfast at the motel's restaurant, read the paper and just generally took our own sweet time getting back on the road. We had all day to travel the 140 miles or so back to our home somewhere behind the Redwood Curtain.

-yup, the Pope's still dead

The ride down Hwy 199, through the Smith River Canyon was lovely. This is always one of my favorite roads to ride but today it was especially nice. It may have had something to do with the contrast from the ride the day before. Traffic was light, the bikes were running great, our gear was dry once more and the weather was perfect!

We stopped a lot and took pictures. Why not? We had lots of time on our hands. Just north of Crescent City we hooked up with our own beloved Hwy 101 and headed south down the edge of the continent.

-the vista point just south of Crescent City

We even stopped at The Trees of Mystery for the obligatory picture with Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.

...and to take pictures of Becky appearing to be doing questionable things with Babe's private parts.

-funny, I didn't know oxen even had these parts

Continuing to hit ALL the road side attractions along the way we stopped at the "Tour Thru Tree" outside the town of Klamath. We're hoping to get a group or riders together at the upcoming Sport-Touring.Net's West Coast Regional Meet to try to hit all 3 of these drive through trees in Humboldt County in one day...kind of a Guinness Book of World Records sort of thing.

-"Tour Thru Tree" so named to avoid legal hassles with the "Drive Thru Tree" further south

We decided we needed to do two more things on this trip before arriving back home. We needed to have a "wildlife experience" and we needed to eat some pie. For the "wildlife experience" we thought we'd try to seek out some of the elk in the area. Our first effort in reaching a known elk hangout meant forging a rather large water hazard.

-Becky in mid-stream...she's very brave

We finally found the elk herd somewhere around Big Lagoon.

-for some peculiar reason the elk HATE motorcycles...we were making them nervous

The pie we needed was located at a favorite restaurant of ours, the Eatery, just 20 miles or so from our home in the town of Trinidad.

-MMMMM, pie...or maybe it's berry cobbler

We arrived home mid-afternoon, tired and happy. The dogs were fine, the house was fine, the neighborhood was fine, the town...well, you get the idea. Nothing had changed but us.

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