Tunitas Creek Loop
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tugrikQuick Trip Data:
Today was a good day to show my roomate a few of the "GS Roads" that I take on the motorcycle and also a good excuse to try one new one. I call it the "Tunitas Loop" because that's the best road name of the trip. We never really strayed all that far from home. Staying on the highways and circling this area it'd only have taken 2, maybe 2.5 hours. Our route was 5.5 hours because we stayed on the littlle wiggly lines of the map, which are far more rewarding. We also stopped at many a photo-opportunity. It's amazing what kind of stuff you can find in your own backyard, so to speak.
(highway 35 vista: the bay-side of the peninsula, from So. San Francisco to Mountain View)
I don't have many pics posted yet. To be honest, this one was mostly just an excuse to be Not In The House on a beautiful 80deg, sunny day. It involved taking Alpine road up to Alice's Restaurant for lunch and a bit of motorcycle ogling and then the lovely Tunitas Creek Road down through the redwoods and out to the coast. A little fiddling around with beaches and coastline tourist-pit-stop stores, and then back up the hill a new way, from Pescadero to Alpine road. Home was the easy lope down 35 to 9 and through Saratoga, as usual.
Other than finding a plethora of campsites all bunched together in a redwood grove (one of which we've decided to go back and actually camp in sometime this summer -- anybody for a weekender?), there's not much to say about these roads that I've not already blathered on about when I did it on a motorcycle a few months back. I'll leave it to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
revar to post scenery musings if Revs so chooses. :) The Blue "E" did a great job as it has since I've acquired it. This is honestly the most fun I've had on four wheels, as far as my life's car purchases go. Someday I'll even stop gushing about it.
I've got the 'just before a sunburn' level of dry skin, so I think I made it out of this one safely. It's now that time of year I need to keep sunblock with me, so I need to remember and get some this week. I've got about 100 photos but a lot of them are pointless fussings with the 10D's servo-focus mechanism (courtesy of driving-by bikers) and a set of failed exposure experiments in a rather dim redwood grove where handheld just wasn't cutting it. I'll edit up a few more and add it to the measly 8 pics that are currently on the image page for this trip.
- Milage: 110
- Total trip time: 5h:30m
- Distance from home: Within the Bay Area
- Garmin Mapsource route file
- JPEG picture of route
- Imageserver page
- Vehicle Taken: Element
Today was a good day to show my roomate a few of the "GS Roads" that I take on the motorcycle and also a good excuse to try one new one. I call it the "Tunitas Loop" because that's the best road name of the trip. We never really strayed all that far from home. Staying on the highways and circling this area it'd only have taken 2, maybe 2.5 hours. Our route was 5.5 hours because we stayed on the littlle wiggly lines of the map, which are far more rewarding. We also stopped at many a photo-opportunity. It's amazing what kind of stuff you can find in your own backyard, so to speak.
(highway 35 vista: the bay-side of the peninsula, from So. San Francisco to Mountain View)
I don't have many pics posted yet. To be honest, this one was mostly just an excuse to be Not In The House on a beautiful 80deg, sunny day. It involved taking Alpine road up to Alice's Restaurant for lunch and a bit of motorcycle ogling and then the lovely Tunitas Creek Road down through the redwoods and out to the coast. A little fiddling around with beaches and coastline tourist-pit-stop stores, and then back up the hill a new way, from Pescadero to Alpine road. Home was the easy lope down 35 to 9 and through Saratoga, as usual.
Other than finding a plethora of campsites all bunched together in a redwood grove (one of which we've decided to go back and actually camp in sometime this summer -- anybody for a weekender?), there's not much to say about these roads that I've not already blathered on about when I did it on a motorcycle a few months back. I'll leave it to
revar to post scenery musings if Revs so chooses. :) The Blue "E" did a great job as it has since I've acquired it. This is honestly the most fun I've had on four wheels, as far as my life's car purchases go. Someday I'll even stop gushing about it.I've got the 'just before a sunburn' level of dry skin, so I think I made it out of this one safely. It's now that time of year I need to keep sunblock with me, so I need to remember and get some this week. I've got about 100 photos but a lot of them are pointless fussings with the 10D's servo-focus mechanism (courtesy of driving-by bikers) and a set of failed exposure experiments in a rather dim redwood grove where handheld just wasn't cutting it. I'll edit up a few more and add it to the measly 8 pics that are currently on the image page for this trip.
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Quick Trip Data:
<ul><li>Milage: 110</li>
<li>Total trip time: 5h:30m</li>
<li>Distance from home: Within the Bay Area</li>
<li><a href="http://tarne.fbrtech.com/~tugrik/trips/maps/tunitas.mps">Garmin Mapsource route file</a></li>
<li><a href="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/map.html">JPEG picture of route</a></li>
<li><a href="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/">Imageserver page</a></li>
<li>Vehicle Taken: Element</li></ul>
Today was a good day to show my roomate a few of the "GS Roads" that I take on the motorcycle and also a good excuse to try one new one. I call it the "Tunitas Loop" because that's the best road name of the trip. We never really strayed all that far from home. Staying on the highways and circling this area it'd only have taken 2, maybe 2.5 hours. Our route was 5.5 hours because we stayed on the littlle wiggly lines of the map, which are far more rewarding. We also stopped at many a photo-opportunity. It's amazing what kind of stuff you can find in your own backyard, so to speak.
<center><a href="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/35vista.html"><img src="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/35vista%2bweb.jpg"></a>
<i>(highway 35 vista: the bay-side of the peninsula, from So. San Francisco to Mountain View)</i>
</center>
<lj-cut>I don't have many pics posted yet. To be honest, this one was mostly just an excuse to be Not In The House on a beautiful 80deg, sunny day. It involved taking Alpine road up to Alice's Restaurant for lunch and a bit of motorcycle ogling and then the lovely Tunitas Creek Road down through the redwoods and out to the coast. A little fiddling around with beaches and coastline tourist-pit-stop stores, and then back up the hill a new way, from Pescadero to Alpine road. Home was the easy lope down 35 to 9 and through Saratoga, as usual.
Other than finding a plethora of campsites all bunched together in a redwood grove (one of which we've decided to go back and actually camp in sometime this summer -- anybody for a weekender?), there's not much to say about these roads that I've not already blathered on about when I did it on a motorcycle a few months back. I'll leave it to <lj site="livejournal.com" user="Revar"> to post scenery musings if Revs so chooses. :) The Blue "E" did a great job as it has since I've acquired it. This is honestly the most fun I've had on four wheels, as far as my life's car purchases go. Someday I'll even stop gushing about it.
I've got the 'just before a sunburn' level of dry skin, so I think I made it out of this one safely. It's now that time of year I need to keep sunblock with me, so I need to remember and get some this week. I've got about 100 photos but a lot of them are pointless fussings with the 10D's servo-focus mechanism (courtesy of driving-by bikers) and a set of failed exposure experiments in a rather dim redwood grove where handheld just wasn't cutting it. I'll edit up a few more and add it to the measly 8 pics that are currently on the image page for this trip.
<a href="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/garth-bored.html"><img align=left src="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/garth-bored%2bthumb.jpg"</a> <a href="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/lobsterhelmet.html"><img align=right src="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/lobsterhelmet%2bthumb.jpg"></a>Oh, and kudos to <lj site="livejournal.com" user="Peganthyrus">. Her Photoshop-Fu is Mighty. She took a few moments to help me figure out how to play masking games with color and saturation. Basic stuff to most of you photo-shop weenies, I'm sure, but it's new to me. The combination of a tired and still Revar, a longer shutter-open length, the hustle of Alice's Restaurant and this new use of Photoshop yielded my one 'artsy' photo attempt for the day. I did the same effect on a colorful helmet shot, but that was just gratiutous and unnecessary. Fun, still.
For those of you who live in (or visit) the Bay Area I highly encourage you to start taking some of these non-obvious roads between the main highway gaps. They're often quite rewarding. Even the goat-trail sized ones are taken care of well enough to get the average family wagon through, as long as you're careful. I'd be glad to point a few out.
<ul><li>Milage: 110</li>
<li>Total trip time: 5h:30m</li>
<li>Distance from home: Within the Bay Area</li>
<li><a href="http://tarne.fbrtech.com/~tugrik/trips/maps/tunitas.mps">Garmin Mapsource route file</a></li>
<li><a href="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/map.html">JPEG picture of route</a></li>
<li><a href="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/">Imageserver page</a></li>
<li>Vehicle Taken: Element</li></ul>
Today was a good day to show my roomate a few of the "GS Roads" that I take on the motorcycle and also a good excuse to try one new one. I call it the "Tunitas Loop" because that's the best road name of the trip. We never really strayed all that far from home. Staying on the highways and circling this area it'd only have taken 2, maybe 2.5 hours. Our route was 5.5 hours because we stayed on the littlle wiggly lines of the map, which are far more rewarding. We also stopped at many a photo-opportunity. It's amazing what kind of stuff you can find in your own backyard, so to speak.
<center><a href="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/35vista.html"><img src="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/35vista%2bweb.jpg"></a>
<i>(highway 35 vista: the bay-side of the peninsula, from So. San Francisco to Mountain View)</i>
</center>
<lj-cut>I don't have many pics posted yet. To be honest, this one was mostly just an excuse to be Not In The House on a beautiful 80deg, sunny day. It involved taking Alpine road up to Alice's Restaurant for lunch and a bit of motorcycle ogling and then the lovely Tunitas Creek Road down through the redwoods and out to the coast. A little fiddling around with beaches and coastline tourist-pit-stop stores, and then back up the hill a new way, from Pescadero to Alpine road. Home was the easy lope down 35 to 9 and through Saratoga, as usual.
Other than finding a plethora of campsites all bunched together in a redwood grove (one of which we've decided to go back and actually camp in sometime this summer -- anybody for a weekender?), there's not much to say about these roads that I've not already blathered on about when I did it on a motorcycle a few months back. I'll leave it to <lj site="livejournal.com" user="Revar"> to post scenery musings if Revs so chooses. :) The Blue "E" did a great job as it has since I've acquired it. This is honestly the most fun I've had on four wheels, as far as my life's car purchases go. Someday I'll even stop gushing about it.
I've got the 'just before a sunburn' level of dry skin, so I think I made it out of this one safely. It's now that time of year I need to keep sunblock with me, so I need to remember and get some this week. I've got about 100 photos but a lot of them are pointless fussings with the 10D's servo-focus mechanism (courtesy of driving-by bikers) and a set of failed exposure experiments in a rather dim redwood grove where handheld just wasn't cutting it. I'll edit up a few more and add it to the measly 8 pics that are currently on the image page for this trip.
<a href="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/garth-bored.html"><img align=left src="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/garth-bored%2bthumb.jpg"</a> <a href="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/lobsterhelmet.html"><img align=right src="http://images.fbrtech.com/tora/trip/tunitas/lobsterhelmet%2bthumb.jpg"></a>Oh, and kudos to <lj site="livejournal.com" user="Peganthyrus">. Her Photoshop-Fu is Mighty. She took a few moments to help me figure out how to play masking games with color and saturation. Basic stuff to most of you photo-shop weenies, I'm sure, but it's new to me. The combination of a tired and still Revar, a longer shutter-open length, the hustle of Alice's Restaurant and this new use of Photoshop yielded my one 'artsy' photo attempt for the day. I did the same effect on a colorful helmet shot, but that was just gratiutous and unnecessary. Fun, still.
For those of you who live in (or visit) the Bay Area I highly encourage you to start taking some of these non-obvious roads between the main highway gaps. They're often quite rewarding. Even the goat-trail sized ones are taken care of well enough to get the average family wagon through, as long as you're careful. I'd be glad to point a few out.
