On the bike again..

The first thing I wanted to do when I got back was go for a motorcycle ride. I had really missed that. So on Monday, the Labour Day holiday, I took a trip up north to Oroville and then up into the Sierras to the town of Quincy. The road up to Oroville is nothing remarkable – straight as a die through rice fields and fruit orchards but Highway 162 from Oroville to Quincy is a wonderful motorcycle road - sparse traffic, and with the exception of a few rough spots in the mid section an excellent road surface with lots of nice curves. Every now and again you find these remarkable roads in the middle of nowhere through difficult terrain with such an excellent surface and it always leaves me wondering where they got the money from to pay for it all.

Quincy itself is also quite a nice town. A little remote perhaps and maybe really remote in winter time, but at this time of year a really pleasant mountain town. A little hippyish, a little artsyish, a nice atmosphere to it. The high point was a wonderful lunch in a coffee shop – restaurant – beer bar – music venue combination called Pangaea. I highly recommend it if you are in the neighbourhood.