I was taking a nap this morning when I heard a motorcycle out front so I got up as I figured it was my brother Barry and it was.
He asked if I wanted to go for a dirt bike ride up in the hills. Sure.
So I got my shoes and socks on as I was still in my slippers and we headed on up into the hills and rode all around on the roads.
Lush big ferns
We went through here. Things are pretty lush right now.
Top of the world
Eventually after riding around for a good bit we made it to the Top of the World as my neighbor calls it. Good place for a break so we did.
Here’s the view out towards the town of Guerneville over the hill tops.
Tired out
After a good break my bother says he’s tired out and wants to head on home so we headed on down the hill and made it back to his truck.
Hot dirt bike has an air intake problem
He rides this hot dirt bike and was saying it’s staving for air so once out of his riding gear we took some stuff off his bike and had a look at the air intake area. The place were the air gets to the air filter was closed up a lot and not letting enough air get in. He took off the air cover and took it for a spin and he said much better so will do a little trim job on the plastic part when he gets home. It’s hard to believe a hot dirt bike as it is has a problem like that from the manufacturer.
Barry’s doing some mechanicing on his hot dirt bike. It is a hot bike too. It has much more zip than the bike I’m riding. The one I’m riding has plenty of zip for me though.
Good for the body
One thing I’ve discovered about riding these dirt bikes at our age is riding them really loosens up the body. When I first started riding again I could barely get my leg over the seat to get on and off. Now I can do that and more as it really stretches out the body.
Barry took off for home and I did the same to continue my nap.
Pole bean trellis
I’d been thinking this old gate I’m not using would be good for growing some pole beans on if I propped it up.
So today I finally drug it to this spot where it needs to be wired up into position.
It’s a bit heavy but I got it up into this position for now. I will put some better log braces on it eventually but for now I better get some beans planted. The beans can grow up the pen fence and then across the gate so should be easy to pick too.
By the time I got the gate up it was late evening so that was about it for me today.
Nice day, nice ride and I got a bit of work done too.
Look very interesting.
I have always wanted to hike the forrest in Guerneville. How can I get to the top of the world? I have a friend that lives on Nelly rd and have explored a bit of the hills on that side of the river but never to the top of the hills. Looking forward in hearing from you.
Most of the property around here is private so it’s not easy getting to the top of the world. However Bull Frog Pond in Armstrong Park is a high point one can get to and is up on top. You can hike or drive up there. Try that.
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Look very interesting.
I have always wanted to hike the forrest in Guerneville. How can I get to the top of the world? I have a friend that lives on Nelly rd and have explored a bit of the hills on that side of the river but never to the top of the hills. Looking forward in hearing from you.
Most of the property around here is private so it’s not easy getting to the top of the world. However Bull Frog Pond in Armstrong Park is a high point one can get to and is up on top. You can hike or drive up there. Try that.