I finally got Brian to come down from Tacoma to ride some of our local curvy roads. He rode down from his house on Saturday and stayed overnight. Sunday we had a long day, and even longer for him as he rode home after we had already done about 250 miles. The weather was great and the traffic was less than I expected for a weekend. One of the roads I planned to include on the ride was Portland's "racer road", the Wind River highway from Carson to the McClelland overlook. I was worried about meeting out of control sport bike riders or a bunch of slow moving campers and Sunday drivers that would get in our way. It turned out that we didn't have to pass a single vehicle through the curvy part, which is unusual even during the week. I went part way with Brian towards his home by going with him up forest road 25 to the Windy Ridge turnoff where we parted ways. It was a 312 mile ride for me and probably more for Brian. I think he enjoyed the ride and it was his first long ride for him since we went looking at property last summer. The only fly in the ointment was that he was somewhat uncomfortable because he is due for a hip replacement in December and his hip was bothering him. Here are a few pics from the ride:
We went up the Columbia River gorge and took all the side roads off hwy 14 to one of my favorite roads, Canyon road to Appleton and on to Glenwood. Brian was pretty impressed with this view the town of Hood River and may look into it as a retirement option.
It was great to ride with Brian again and have some time to chatter over the intercoms. He has a busy life and doesn't get many chances to ride.
