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Old 10-16-2008, 10:17 PM   #1
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Artist Painting The Need to Ride: a Treatise of Longing & Desire.

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Old 10-16-2008, 10:20 PM   #2
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Re: The Need to Ride: a Treatise of Longing & Desire.

need (ned) n. 1. an urgent requirement of something essential or emotionally desirable

Ready to come along?

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Old 10-16-2008, 10:26 PM   #3
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Re: The Need to Ride: a Treatise of Longing & Desire.

Our first stop, Pigeon Point Lighthouse outside of San Francisco. Despite the sense that it's aging, rust covered and about ready to fall over any second, it's really a pretty lighthouse.

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Like the cover of a magazine. Pretty.

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Old 10-16-2008, 10:32 PM   #4
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Re: The Need to Ride: a Treatise of Longing & Desire.

As always, we had a great bunch of riders on this tour, and also some familiar faces.

Peter & wife Lori out from Missouri

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Greg came up from LA. Dave was here from Florida- for a whole month.

And that bald chinese guy you keep seeing in the pics is Billy, our season pass holder next to Mark- 3rd, 4th, 5th tour, something like that.

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Peter, Craig in the blue back there.

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Bob who is a familiar face with Pashnit Tours, was reunited with his brother Tom who flew out from North Carolina. They had planned for riding together for another week after our tour.

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Old 10-16-2008, 10:37 PM   #5
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Re: The Need to Ride: a Treatise of Longing & Desire.

See that rusting wire on the top of the lighthouse? Placard there says after iron banding fell off a few years back, they put that 'band-aid' on temporarily to hold the lighthouse together.

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Also joined by Craig for the 2nd time. Mark dragged him along a few weeks back on the NorCal Tour, and here he is again. Hooked I think.

Like this pic (of Craig). Although my mom always told me not to look into the sun.

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Old 10-16-2008, 10:42 PM   #6
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Re: The Need to Ride: a Treatise of Longing & Desire.

All these years of photographing the ocean really don't even begin to capture it properly.

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No idea what type of plants these are. Cool though.

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One last look at the Light Station, and then we're off.

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Old 10-16-2008, 10:46 PM   #7
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Re: The Need to Ride: a Treatise of Longing & Desire.

Anyone up for 74 Miles of twisties?

Pick me. Pick me.

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Mark's Triumph Tiger

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BMW K1200R

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Did something a bit unusual and handed the key to the Hayabusa to Billie.

We swapped bikes and I rode this for 2 days. Yes, different in every sense of the word!

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Old 10-16-2008, 10:50 PM   #8
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Re: The Need to Ride: a Treatise of Longing & Desire.

Your view for lunch, sir.

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Our tour group meetin' and greetin', getting to know one another. Which is a big part of being on one of these tours. The riders.

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That view again. This is Rocky Point Restaurant, which is just south of Carmel.

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Old 10-16-2008, 10:54 PM   #9
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California Big Sur Coastline

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Rocky Point Restaurant

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Old 10-16-2008, 10:59 PM   #10
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California Big Sur Coastline - this pic pretty much sums up why it's so famous.

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Dave was real proud of his Triumph Bonneville sport-touring machine he'd created, spot a couple mods?

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