Adventures of a Canuck...

I needed the power and water to charge up my electronics and to give me fuel to pee.

 

Some advise. An airmatress. And a BB gun for the peacocks!

ANd that is some hard riding to set up a tent afterwards.

 

So yesterday is Mother's Day
I am heading down to San Diego to be with the Phamily
As I crusing along the hi way I noticed a bright freaking rider trailing behind.....


As I arrive to my Phamily's house the dude pulling in as well............What the beeeeeeep

Sooooooooo that is the crazy Canuk that that I send off out of Ca couple weeks ago.
We feel so bad for the Canuk since he been eating power bars and sleep on the camp ground so we decided to adopt him to our Phamily. Man this guy can eat and drink...........he swept thru the foods and beers like a tonado

 

Here are the foods prepared from my sister


Baby back ribs prepare from my brother Thomas

 

And here some of the picture of our new Phamily member

Sister Lilian prepare foods for our new adopted child

The Canuk seem to get along fine with his new Phamlily



The little Pham talking about the Crazy Canuk

After having a wonderful lunch with the new Phamily, the Canuk set out again. Destination UNKNOWN


Hope he not going to drop that bike again...............

 

Enjoy the Midway museum......Tell Jason (Derstuka) thanks for inviting me

 

Randy - how much does that back pack weigh? Does it make the ride a little more arduous?

Since Long has welcomed you into his home and his family's home, maybe you should just start leaving some clothes behind for the next trip. Make them give you your own dresser or nightstand.

 

he already claim the master bedroom............lol

 

I haven't weighed it but I think it weighs somewhere around 40 pounds. It contained a tent, sleeping bag, air mattress, pillow and rain jacket. And yes, it made the ride much more difficult. I travlled with as little as I could but I pretty much needed everything in those packs at some time or other during this trip. I think if I had not been wearing that pack, I may have been able to stop the bike from dumping.

I considered leaving my clothes behind in Chilliwack, but that would be an awful sight.

 

I did. Wanna know what he said?

 

I edited and updated thread #58 here since I was having difficulties at the Santa Paula KOA. They restrict bandwidth usage to discourage people from coming up there to surf porn and such. So could not get any posted until I got to Derstuka's place. I will play catch up tomorrow, but I think Long and Stuke have posted about the same pix that I have.

More to come,

 

Freaking tourist ......show off :tongue:

 

hahaha Great job posting those pictures, glad you guys having fun. I do miss San Diego out:
I think the scooter would be better for the Prime Minister so he would not drop them lolound:

 

So. Where was I.

Now it is off to Santa Paula, which is just east of Ventura. Booked in again at the KOA there. It would appear they are in the process of expanding as there was some construction going on, and the tent site they had me booked at was very primitive indeed. Something like the side of a dirt road. No power, no water, in my opinion anyways. It was about 100 yards away. And the washrooms! You had to climb some big jesus hill with ropes to get to it. So I asked to be moved.

They booked me into a full service site. Going to be interesting to see how much that cost me. But it was a nice site. Three times I went to shower and there was no hot water. And they only give you one hour of free internet WiFi. So I paid and extra amount to have unlimited for a week. All was good until I started trying to load photos onto this site. They have restrictions so soon as I was to post one photo, their site would shut me down for the purpose of uploading pix for a day. Next day same thing. Only on photo. I gave up. This was in place to discourage people from using their site for porn. I had a welcoming party to greet me as I arrived on site:



This welcoming member, seemed really interested in my bike. I thought the poor bike was going to get raped. Apparently peacocks are attracted to shiney things. A camping neighbour I had there told me some guy rolled in with a brand new BMW. One of the peacocks went after the bike wile he was gone that the bird was covered with blood, and the bike looked like it went through a bad hail storm. So I watched this bird quite closely during my stay. I would be plucking, dressing and roasting that baby up for dinner if it went after my bike.



Seems I got the sign of approval.



But this particular bird, one of probably a dozen, seemed to take up residency at the sight right next to mine. This is one very noisy bird. Starts whailing at about 0500. All day during the day till night time. Then every time a car goes by, or someone speaks very loud, or a horn goes off, away this damned bird goes again. My next door camping neighbour thought it was quite funny to yell out, after quiet time, and get that damned bird going again. My date of departure, I was up at 0600 and started packing. (Wake up call at 0500 thanks to Mr Peacock). Well when that bird started its routine, I could hear that same neighbour cursing and swearing, while trying to sleep after a late night. Oh, I was just so sympathetic towards that fool. But I do hate peacocks now.

This is the Train Station in Santa Paula. Not sure if it is still used or not but I kinda like old tran stations.



Went out for a ride second day there, once I was sure my site was safe from that gawdily dressed bird. Just a scenery shot on Hwy 150, between Santa Paula and the Thomas Aquinas Colledge. Nice riding road with lots of twisties and very little traffic. I took it easy though.



Down town Ojia. Quaint town. Should have spent more time there. I think this is the Post Office building.



From Ojia, I turned north onto Hwy33. What a great ride that was. Mostly twisties and hardly any traffic. This tunnel is just before San Pedro National Forrest.



Have no idea where I was now.



Entrance to the Forrest. But still don't know where the hell I am. GPS is such a wonderful device.







What I liked about this shot is it showes how nature can recover without us interfering. These trees in the background were burned, so I suppose there was a bush fire in the not too distant past. Lots of other signs to indicate this as well. You can see where new plant growth is well on it's way







Sunday morning I am up and ready to head out. Next stop, a visit with Long and his family, then off to Derstuka's place late afternoon. Stay tuned