Marriot LA to Palm Springs Sat Oct1/2011

Up early to have a delicious breakfast buffet at the Marriot and then luggage and bags to the lobby by 8:30. Then we headed over to Eaglerider to pick out our motorcycles and get our jackets. Great store and facility and joy oh joy I am able to handle the BMW R1200RT

So finally after a lot of Rigamarole we headed out. Straight south on the Interstate and then east on the Ortega Highway. Everyone was excited to finally get some twisties to try out their new motorcycles.

 We had a bit of a fiasco at Hell's Kitchen. It was decided to order ahead to speed up the process but 3 guys got lost and they would not give separate cheques and so cheeseburger and fries turned out to be 24.95 ea. They will not do that again. This spot is a local biker stop and there were some pretty neat machines there. I sure liked the BMW in these photos.
This is our fearless leader Steve Heather

 Then it was on to Palm Springs. All the groups ended up mixed together and we did a group photo overlooking Palm Springs.

We drove past this large lake. Lake Elsinore. It was a tired bunch that finally stopped at the Palm Mountain Resort. Beautiful place. I phoned Ken and Karen Maki andwhen they came over Tom and I bought cool vests and Ken sold a few cool scarfs. After we had reached as many as we could Ken put his merchandise away and he and Karen and I went to Palm Canyon ( a local street) with all kinds of eateries and entertainment.

 It was a beautiful evening and there were many people walking about. We had a light dinner at Ruby's place and I had a picture taken with a bronze of Sonny Bono Jr. Looks like I'm playing with his knee? Then we called it a night.