Nice one,Sun Diego FZ6 (Luis) asked ealrier this week if I was interested in riding Palomar Mountain's South Grade on Tuesday. So we hooked up this morning with another friend Zee and headed out after a bite of breakfast and topped off tanks.
We road up Pally's (Palomar Mountain) East Grade and road down South Grade. What a great day up there. Perfect weather and the scenery was awesome!
When we got to the bottom of the mountain I suggested we head to Montezuma Valley Road and ride down the mountains to Borrego Springs in the Anza Borrego Desert. They had never rode this area so we headed out. We stopped at the Ranchita,Ca Yeti and took some pics. Then we headed down Montezuma Valley Rd.into the desert. The temps were pretty high in the desert so it didn't take us long to head back up "Monty" to the higher elevations where we stopped at the Ranchita Mom n Pop store for a drink. Ray, one of the locals was at the store today. Goop and I saw him last Saturday mowing dirt! Don't ask!Ray as usual gets a hold of your ear and it almost seems a shame to have to say good by to him because he is a sweet person but..."We gotta get going Ray!" LOL!
We're headed back toward Santa Isabel and we have a decent head of steam going and then I see it to late. Hiding in the shadows of the trees. CHP sitting on radar. He lights us up and we pull off on the next side road. We get out our papers and he asks us if we know the speed limit. We answer what we think it is and of course he says we were over it. I was the fastest!
I see a CHP SUV vehicle pull in behind our officer's car. I ask , "Is that J. Peterson?" He answers yes! Then he goes back to talk to Officer Peterson.
Peterson comes back and asks how I know him and I tell him about last year's forum ride and how he's become famous on the FZ6 forum. he's asks, "Was that down in Borrego?" He stops a lot of groups and he remembered the stop. I asked if we could take a picture so we could put him back on our forum and he said yes.
Luis, J. Peterson, and Me. Yeah yeah I know...I have a new look....I'll explain later....
The officer that stopped us is saying Suzuki in Japanese and Zee and the officer start speaking Japanese! Turns out both of them have Japanese ladies in there lives and have learned the language! Small world!
All turned out well. We got some fix-it tickets and were back on our way. Behaving like a human being and owning up does seem to mean something and the other thing is these guys are really good guys. Make no mistake these officers can and will make your life miserable if need be. I'm very thankful.
Oh yeah, the new look. My sister is in treatment and has lost her hair. I shaved it all off. It's as much for me if not more for me because I feel helpless but love her very much and I also hope it helps her know we're close to her in her battle.
Very interesting and fun day.
Da Boyz! ---------------->Next Photo --------------------------------------------------->Zee and Louis!
Zee's Zuki TL1000 SRAD.
I am a firm believer in fronting up and having some manners. It always goes a long way.
I have manage to either talk myself out of a ticket or as you guys did. Get let off with a lesser offence.
Great story and nice pictures.
I hope the sister does well in treatment.
Nelly
PS in picture 2 which one is Zee lol.
