More Trees Please? – San Francisco, CA, USA, July 20, 2022

We finally made it to the coast!  Woo Hoo!  That is about as long as the fun lasted, since it was 50 degrees!  I don’t know if you have ever ridden a motorcycle at 50 but Ron and I were wearing nearly every piece of clothing we brought.  There is this interesting little weather phenomenon that we underestimated regarding how fast the temperature drops.  I guess it’s time to change plans again.

So, we discussed our options over a lovely lunch in Sausalito (one of my favorite places). Hotels were sold out if we went south. We had already done the route directly east and didn’t want to backtrack. It was still cold north, but I still wanted to see the Redwood Forest. When suggesting this I thought Ron was going to punch me even after hearing the argument that if we went inland it wasn’t so bad. We really wanted to ride PC1 up the coast but being this cold was not ideal. Lastly, we did talk about selling the bike and taking off for Hawaii for the next couple months. After must applied logic, in the end, we decided to go north. We would try to hit the Redwood Forest even if we went inland.

The good news after about an hour inland, it did start to warm up.  We made a pitstop at a rest area and the “attendant” (or some old dude in a very convincing, official looking vest), told us about a route we HAD to ride which was on our way.  Having no better ideas, we listened to him, and boy was he right!  We landed right in the middle of “The Avenue of the Giants!”  This is an incredible stretch of about 90 miles where there are coastal Redwood Trees everywhere!  It was gorgeous!  I am including the video to give you a flare of the roads and trees.  It doesn’t do it justice but still pretty cool.