Last Weekend I...

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... headed over to Trinidad for a couple of days fishing. Everything I need for fishing is over there, so all I had to do was pack up and ride!

Ready to go.
After a stretch of slow truck traffic hauling debris from the Camp fire (what an unfortunate name) I was onto the slab, I-5, for 30 minutes between Red Bluff and Redding.
Headed west on 299 and ran into 2 delays. At Whiskeytown there was a long wait in both directions. Every cloud, etc. ... I snuck up the shoulder to the front of the line and when we started off again I had the whole road to myself all the way to Weaverville, a great stretch of mountain highway.
Second stop was same scenario, this time a rockslide. Watched a rock the size of a large watermelon dislodged from above bounce on the right shoulder and jump the road into the river.
Once again snuck to the head of the line and was chatting with the flag man, where I was soon joined by a rider on a Wing, towing a trailer. Turns out I went to high school with his sister!
Again, when traffic started we set off and had nobody in our direction for miles.
Finally made it to 101 at Arcata and north another 15 miles or so to Trinidad.

Mouth of the Mad river in the near background. Trinidad head in the distance. Will continue with a couple more pics soon, duty calls.

Ben

That's crazy! Good that said watermelon-rock did not find you!! On a trip in Guatemala a local motorcycle guy passed me and my friend as we had stopped for a photo. Couldn't have been 3 curves down road where we caught up with him as he was laid out on the side of the road--an avalanche of rocks and mud took him out and ruined his side case, emptying it of a good deal of oil. He was physically ok, but dazed and confused. Within minutes others stopped and between several of us, we got his mc on the back of a pickup whose owner offered to take rider and bike to the next town. What luck! Glad yours was better.

Looking forward to more photos...