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From: Twibil on 9 Aug 2010 02:45
Interesting ride today. Went south 120 miles on the I-15 to Sandy
Eggo and then turned left into the hills and did another 50 to the
Pacific Southwest Railway Museum along some *great* twisties right
next to the Mexican border. The locals know about those twisties,
too, as I passed circa 50 sportbikes going the other way. (So does the
Border Patrol, which had set up illegal alien checkpoints in two
different places between S.D. and Campo.) There was also some guy in a
white van who kept leaping out from behind a bush to take ambush
telephoto pictures of the sportbikers dragging their knees around this
one 80 MPH sweeper.

I must have dissappointed him, as he leaped out, pointed his camera at
me, and then visibly relaxed: probably thinking, "Damn! Another old
guy on a touring bike!" (I have no idea *why* he was taking the pics.
Freelance moto-photog? Irate citizen gathering evidence? Early
Halloween? Quien sabe?)

After visiting a bunch of rusty old steam locomotives at Campo <
http://www.sdrm.org/gallery/stage/stage-2353-1.jpg > I set sail for
Julian, a well-known tourist/biker-trap located atop the mountains 50
miles north east of Sandy Eggo. Getting there was problematical, as I
ended up going through another Border patrol checkpoint right behind a
camper which proved to be full of illegal aliens. (Well; I *assume*
they were illegals, as you don't normally otherwise see 20 guys named
Garcia all packed into one camper shell. Not even at the Garcia Family
Annual Reunion.)

Once past the checkpoint I made some good time until I came around a
curve to see five sets of flashing red and blue lights blocking the
road and a pair of shame-faced guys in handcuffs whose open car trunk
was full of brown-paper-wrapped packages of *something* interesting.
In fact, it must have been *very* interesting, as the cops also had a
light plane circling around the scene. (Probably Border Patrol again.)

After a slice of over-priced (but good) Apple pie and a Coke in
Julian, I continued on home; passing the Palomar Mountains (&
Observatory) to their east, then following the old Butterfield Stage
Road through Oak Grove < http://www.flickr.com/photos/33885727(a)N03/3990534841/
> , then up through Anza, where there's a typical California
structure: an old Adobe home that's now used as a fruit stand, and
which features a dancing dinosaur on the roof... <
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33885727(a)N03/4851996715/ > ...something
you see every day, right?

Eventually returned home via the San Jacinto Mountains and I-10. Only
320 miles in 7 hours, but some interesting sights were seen along the
way.

It was a nice day for a ride.
From: tomorrow on 9 Aug 2010 06:41
On Aug 9, 2:45 am, Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting ride today.  

(RideStorySnip tm)

> Eventually returned home via the San Jacinto Mountains and I-10. Only
> 320 miles in 7 hours, but some interesting sights were seen along the
> way.
>
> It was a nice day for a ride.

Sounds like it was a nice ride for the day. Thanks for sharing!
From: ? on 9 Aug 2010 07:44
On Aug 8, 11:45 pm, Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting ride today.  

Yawwwwn!

Been there, done that.
From: T.J. Higgins on 9 Aug 2010 10:55
In article <ddd89691-af7b-49ca-acbd-a6f0d5475b43(a)q16g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Twibil wrote:
>Interesting ride today. Went south 120 miles on the I-15 to Sandy
>Eggo and then turned left into the hills and did another 50 to the
>Pacific Southwest Railway Museum along some *great* twisties right
>next to the Mexican border. The locals know about those twisties,
>too, as I passed circa 50 sportbikes going the other way. (So does the
>Border Patrol, which had set up illegal alien checkpoints in two
>different places between S.D. and Campo.) There was also some guy in a
>white van who kept leaping out from behind a bush to take ambush
>telephoto pictures of the sportbikers dragging their knees around this
>one 80 MPH sweeper.
>
>I must have dissappointed him, as he leaped out, pointed his camera at
>me, and then visibly relaxed: probably thinking, "Damn! Another old
>guy on a touring bike!" (I have no idea *why* he was taking the pics.
>Freelance moto-photog? Irate citizen gathering evidence? Early
>Halloween? Quien sabe?)

Maybe to try to sell the pictures to the riders. There are several
such guys who set up shop on the Tail of the Dragon: killboy.com,
zeefoto.com, us129photos.com, etc.
--
TJH

tjhiggin.at.hiwaay.dot.net
From: S'mee on 9 Aug 2010 11:01
On Aug 9, 5:44 am, "?" <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 11:45 pm, Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting ride today.  
>
> Yawwwwn!
>
> Been there, done that.

Yeah but you were in the back of squad car.
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