Author: Larry Jensen

Camping here, one is assured of an Elk spotting, but more to the point, an encounter with an Elk. See, you don’t just “spot them” here, you are camping right where they graze, sleep and…poop.

We left Westport Beach late in the morning as I did a lot of work on the blog and also had to process a number of Internet Orders for our Motorcycle Parts business. I knew that we’d be turning East today away from the Coastline so I was a bit disappointed in that, but as…

After a wonderful night’s sleep, I packed up the bus, ran across the street and grabbed some breakfast at the General Store and then we left the parking lot of the Valley Ford Hotel wondering what today would have in store for us.

We left San Francisco late afternoon on Sunday, October 27, 2013. Upon arriving in Marin County we immediately got on RT 1 also known as Shoreline Highway in this section while south its known as the Pacific Coast Highway. I must still have some motorcycle genes in me because I loved this section of road.

The walk back to the bus revealed to me the city I had failed to see when I arrived in darkness the night before. I was anxious to go explore, but some of my first impressions were just how many steep hills there were. How high up we actually were and how nice everyone was that I met on our walk.

I was a bt concerned as to how this 4 speed bus would handle the steep grade, not so much getting up, but having to stop on that hill at the numerous stop signs and take off. I must say…I was impressed with Sandy (my Bus). She took them on with no problem.

So here we are traveling at 496 mph , flying at 3,407 feet on our way to another adventure. How did we get here? I guess I need to go way back to my first encounter.