Spring

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Explored overlooked dead end roads.


A wet winter brought some colors to the Santa Cruz Mountains.




JP Morgan Chase Silicon Valley Technology Center in Palo Alto


SAP Labs were using organic lawn mowers

 

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Westwind Community Barn in Los Altos

 

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Russian Ridge OSP


KTM 690 SMC-R, Honda CB-1


Alpine Rd

 

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Redwood Rd parallel to Butano Creek ended

 

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Gazos Creek State Beach with some birders

 

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Behind Gazos Creek Alliance is Old Coast Hwy (now a private road).

 

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Whitehouse Canyon Rd was unpaved its entire 3.5 mile length into a cluster of



Cliffs by Waddell Beach



Rancho del Oso

 

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Swanton View Rd — Las Trancas Rd (private roads)




Newest BLM national monument: Cotoni-Coast Dairies


Opened in 1906, this cement plant helped rebuild San Francisco after the earthquake and constructed dry docks at Pearl Harbor and the Panama Canal

CEMEX (Cementos Mexicanos )

 

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Blue Whale at UC Santa Cruz's Seymour Marine Discovery Center


View from West Cliff Dr



Empire Grade Rd toward Lockheed Martin's missile engine testing site (a mile beyond where everyone turns at Jamison Creek Rd)

 

[budman]

That was a fun tour Ich!!

 

[Melissa]

yes and thanks for the beautiful pics.

 

[berth]

Always had a "thing" for the CB-1. Of course I always loved that time "when Honda went weird" with the CB-1, Hawk GT, GB500 and the PC800.

 

[augustiron]

You had me until pc800

 

[ThumperX]

What a lovely trip around so many local haunts!
Thank you for including us.

 

[CDONA]

Just an FYI
a repost for "Spring"

La news reporting Death Valley is starting to bloom with an "above average rainy season"
Hwy 190