2009-04/04 - '08 Adventure Day Ride 06 - Roster

NORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

What When Where To Register Registration Fee '08 ADR 06 Pages Dualsport Ride, full day Meet Saturday, 04 Apr, 7:30 AM Meet @ BMW Motorcycles of Ventura County email EarthRider $25.00 [Intro] [Roster] [Recap] [Slideshow] Registration Options Meet @ BMWoVC $25.00 Remote meeting site $45.00

Jerome Smith
{New to ER; no photo}
BMW F800GS

Neil Reynolds
ER - '09 DSS 03b
BMW R1200GS

Gary D'Amico
'08 ADR 01
BMW R1200GSA

Greg Drevenstedt
'08 ADR 05b
Kawasaki KLR 650

Frederic "Fredo" Charpentier
ER - '09 DSS 04
BMW R1200GS

Ken Tarallo
'08 ADR 02
Kawasaki KLR 650

Laura Smith
CIA POW Retrieval Mission, Laos
{I made that bit up about Laos...}
Honda CRF230L

2009-04/04 - '08 Adventure Day Ride 06 - Intro

NORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

What When Where To Register Registration Fee '08 ADR 06 Pages Dualsport Ride, full day Meet Saturday, 04 Apr, 7:30 AM Meet @ BMW Motorcycles of Ventura County email EarthRider $25.00 [Intro] [Roster] [Recap] [Slideshow] Registration Options Meet @ BMWoVC $25.00 Remote meeting site $45.00

We will be exploring the Santa Ynez Valley, the Los Padres National Forest north of Santa Barbara, and points further north and east. Paved riding miles will be significant and scenic.

ADR 05/06 Comparison: This time we are upping the ante with the addition of a slightly narrow, winding climb, and some stream / dry streambed crossings that are a little more technical than those we have encountered previously. Further, the early afternoon will find us traversing a long and fairly remote unpaved section.

A dualsport brigade rides on its stomach; have a good breakfast! You’ll have the chance to top it off with genuine BMW Coffee From The Magic Silver Box By The TV when we meet at the shop. Lunch will be at a restaurant / deli in the Santa Ynez valley. Riders opting for a late afternoon refuel before heading home will be able to do that in Ojai. It’s a long, hard cattle-drive; bring snacks for between times.

'08 Adventure Day Rides 04-06 - Slideshows

Click any slideshow to play it. Click any displayed image to open it in another window. Images are downloadable in full size. Images that appear smaller than usual -- do not fill up the slideshow frame in at least one direction -- are actually VIDEOS. TO watch, click on the image. This will open up the album in your browser and begin buffering the video.

HOW TO ACCESS FULL-SIZED IMAGES:

Click the image you like while it is showing on the slideshow. This should open a browser page showing the picture in one of EarthRider's Picasa galleries. Right-click the image and choose "Copy image address" or whatever is most like that, from the drop-down menu. Paste the URL you just copied into the address bar of your browser & click return. You should see the image by itself. If the URL you pasted has a piece that looks like this

/s800/

delete the s, the number, and one slash. Then hit return again. You should see the full size image.

Do you have images (or video, or stories) from one of our rides? Contact me about including them in "VCARS in Words & Pictures".

'08 ADR 04











'08 ADR 05

[Photos by Blake "Towstrap" Hill & Wayne Tidwell]

'08 ADR 05b










'08 ADR 06