The rain finally stopped (getting a lot this year in San Diego - On the weekends of course!) so I took Black Beauty for a nice long ride along with my bud Jim on his KLR.
Headed out of Alpine on HWY 8, and grabbed HWY 78 to head into Julian to meet Jim.
Here's a shot just North of Descanso:
This is about 1/2 way up 78 towards Cuyamaca Lake:
I made a quick stop st Cuyamaca Lake for a picture:
Just South of Julian is a nice viewpoint that overlooks the Anza Borrego Desert - That's the way we're headed:
Here's my bud Jim with the bikes at the Julian Library - It was a bit chilly so we were looking forward to hitting the desert floor:
We followed HWY 78 all the way into Blythe - Here's a series of pictures along the way:
Here are a few shots of the Dunes at Glamis:
Last shot of the day was about an hour out of Blythe - The scraggly rock hills just caught my eye:
All in all a great day. We ate lunch at Popeye's Chicken, then headed out a slightly different route - 78 to 111 South to HWY 8 and home.
On the way back we hit 30 mph headwinds... Holding 65 I returned only 32 MPG (I usually get 40). Jim, who usually gets 50 mpg was down to 39...
Needless to say there was an extra gas stop involved!
So 425 miles and 9 hours (including lunch and picture stops). A real nice day!
