mkitchen
Explorer
One of my hopes is to do a trip that merits entrance in the Ride Reports, as in being out for more than a week. But for now, here is the start of a report on a four day trip we just did.
My son, Sam, plans a family campout for spring break every year. This year we went to the north side of Alamo Lake for four days. We usually take the 4X4's but this year Sam, his daughter, Roxanne, and I rode out on the dual sports. We were able to stay on dirt for almost all of the 85 miles from home to the lake. None of the trip was overly challenging but it was still fun to be riding out there.
There is a frontage road that goes between the Santa Fe railroad and I 40. Roxanne is still very new to bikes and I am not much better, so the dirt roads worked fine.
Not too much left of Yucca AZ. When I first moved here this motel sign used to be in front of an existing motel and the Whiting Bros. gas station just down the road was still there too.
In all the years I have been by this spot, I have never taken the time to shoot a picture of it. It has always been called the golf ball and it seems to have been built in the days of the big land scams of the early 60's.
Pretty much just smooth dirt road from Yucca to Alamo. Once past the Signal turnoff it did get a little more interesting with some hills, corners and narrower road.
Sam and Roxanne were ahead of me since I kept stopping to take pictures.
At last, the lake.
On the second day we headed out to look for a route that would take us across the river and to the populated side of Alamo lake. We had no luck on that count. Huffman rd went the way we wanted and it took us through the sprawling city of Huffman.
Yep, up on the hill is Huffman. No one was there when we came through but it was obvious that folks at least stayed there pretty regularly.
After Huffman, we continued on, looking for the crossing that we knew to be there. We finally found the right road.
Unfortunately what used to be a bit of a steep drop off down to the river is now a very steep drop off to the river.
I am not ready to drop off that bank. Plus we could no longer see where the road came to the river from the south. So much for this crossing, at least for a while.
Here are some teasers for Maggie's Wash. I will show you some more shots in the continuation. Too much sand in the wash for me and since we had some 4 wheelers, we used them.
On the next thread I will cover McGuffie's cabin and finding a functional crossing of the Bill Williams river as well as our trip through Maggie's wash.
Mikey
My son, Sam, plans a family campout for spring break every year. This year we went to the north side of Alamo Lake for four days. We usually take the 4X4's but this year Sam, his daughter, Roxanne, and I rode out on the dual sports. We were able to stay on dirt for almost all of the 85 miles from home to the lake. None of the trip was overly challenging but it was still fun to be riding out there.
There is a frontage road that goes between the Santa Fe railroad and I 40. Roxanne is still very new to bikes and I am not much better, so the dirt roads worked fine.
Not too much left of Yucca AZ. When I first moved here this motel sign used to be in front of an existing motel and the Whiting Bros. gas station just down the road was still there too.
In all the years I have been by this spot, I have never taken the time to shoot a picture of it. It has always been called the golf ball and it seems to have been built in the days of the big land scams of the early 60's.
Pretty much just smooth dirt road from Yucca to Alamo. Once past the Signal turnoff it did get a little more interesting with some hills, corners and narrower road.
Sam and Roxanne were ahead of me since I kept stopping to take pictures.
At last, the lake.
On the second day we headed out to look for a route that would take us across the river and to the populated side of Alamo lake. We had no luck on that count. Huffman rd went the way we wanted and it took us through the sprawling city of Huffman.
Yep, up on the hill is Huffman. No one was there when we came through but it was obvious that folks at least stayed there pretty regularly.
After Huffman, we continued on, looking for the crossing that we knew to be there. We finally found the right road.
Unfortunately what used to be a bit of a steep drop off down to the river is now a very steep drop off to the river.
I am not ready to drop off that bank. Plus we could no longer see where the road came to the river from the south. So much for this crossing, at least for a while.
Here are some teasers for Maggie's Wash. I will show you some more shots in the continuation. Too much sand in the wash for me and since we had some 4 wheelers, we used them.
On the next thread I will cover McGuffie's cabin and finding a functional crossing of the Bill Williams river as well as our trip through Maggie's wash.
Mikey
