Real nice bike...

This caught my eye over on the Corpses from Hell blog recently..

Indio view...

I thought it was surreal to see snow covered mountains behind palm trees.. That's California!

Indio, CA...

The 86 highway from Salton City north has some of the longest, straightest stretches of road I've ever ridden along.
I sat cruising at 85 mph for what must have been nearly 10 minutes numerous times before reaching a curve..

Salton Sea..

This is a view of the Salton Sea, 40 miles east of Borrego Springs; it's a large inland stretch of water 30 miles long by about 10 miles wide. I followed it north along the 86 highway..

Riding East..

There was evidence up in Julian of substantial snowfall at the weekend & last week during the stormy weather. I nipped thru the twisty bits paying heed to the occasional sand and gravel on the road edges. Once down the mountain again I was burning along those seemingly endless desert roads east..

Riding again...

It rained most of last week, 'till sunday when I had to go up to the swapmeet in Long Beach (found nothing!) so today I was itchin' for a bit of riding again.. It was stunning too so I headed east thru Borrego.

Julian Pie!

The apple crumble served is awesome, actually this had some peach in it too...