A little bit of everything-Solvang/Portillos/Flag
Decided to lump a few pictures and stories in one topic, getting lazy I suppose.
First is a Ride With Ken from Cerritos on his V-Star 1300, to Solvang via Hwy 1 to the 101 in Oxnard and on up directly to Buellton and Solvang. Stopped for Lunch at Anderson's Split Pea Soup restaurant as I had never been there as far as I can remember. Place is getting a bit shabby around the edges, but food was good if a little pricey. It was pleasant until we passed Santa Barbara and turned inland then the heat started piling up rapidly. After lunch motored into Solvang for a brief stop and a Chocolate Eclair which we split. Bought a pin for my vest.
ON the way back we took the inland route past Lake Cachuma and made just one stop above Santa Barbara
A quick stop on the highway.
Riding back into the LA freeway mess was brutal. We went south on the 405 to the 105 Fwy but that turned out to be a mistake and we cooked and just about crawled.
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CHAPTER PRESIDENT BUYS A NEW MOTORCYCLE AND IT'S A HONDA. Comes with just about every gadget you can think of and a few you might not have imagined. Click the caption picture to read my notes...
Picture taken at bike night in Buena Park at Portillo's
This is getting interesting, Couple new Hondas, several new Harleys, One new Stratoliner (1), is STAR losing ground here?
-----------------------------------------------------------------FLAG CEREMONY IN ORANGE WITH NEW PICTURES.At least two members in the picture are Viet Nam vets including Stan and Chuck.
Ride to Molly Brown's Cafe in Hesperia
6 members of the STAR/FOS (Friends Of Stan) group zipped out to Molly Brown's cafe in Hesperia this morning for breakfast. Location is off Main St. and Third on Hesperia Rd. along some railroad tracks. It's a bit hard to find but after only one U-turn we arrived 74 miles from starting point. Breakfast was big. I ordered a hamburger steak, eggs and home fries. The hamburger was a very large hamburger steak, not a patty as I had thought it would be. Johney got biscuits and gravy with bacon. A very generous portion of biscuits smothered in gravy filled the plate and a lot of bacon. Every one had a plate FULL of food no matter what they ordered.
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View Larger MapAfter a great breakfast, John R, Johney, Larry on his Venture, Joe on the Victory Vision, Ken and Richard all headed back to the rapidly warming Orange county area. We did see a rolled SUV on the 60 Fwy at the 57 when returning.
That's about it for today, Saturday Sept 5, 2009. Total 155 miles and about 3 hours.