2021 Pashnit Touring on a Hayabusa
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I've done La Pauna but not Bitterwater. It's on the list now! Thanks!
For quite a few years, we've been using the tiny ranching town of Parkfield, population 18, as a lunch stop. Parkfield claims to be the earthquake capital of the world, as the town is situated over the top of the San Andreas Fault. The bridge that leads into the town is 'bent'. One side of the creek bed is traveling north. And the other side is traveling south.
You can see the bend in the far side of the bridge.
The owners of Parkfield, the Varian Family, have slowly built up the town, after purchasing 8000 acres in 1961, years later, adding a ranch house, and a restaurant with immense success in agri-tourism. Want to participate in a real-life cattle drive like in the movie 'City Slickers'. You can do that here. Into rodeos? They got that here too. The V6 Ranch expanded to 20,000 acres in time and currently covers about 31 square miles.
I started coming here in 2004 with motorcycle tour groups. In 2019, I introduced a motorcycle tour in April that stays in Parkfield, I book the entire town - all nine rooms. And the tour sold out in a day when I announced it. 2022 will be the fourth year we've come here, and the tour sold out by August for the coming season.
The rooms you stay in, there are several in the ranch house, but the original post office is now a room you can stay in. The original water tower, which for many years was a tool shed, has been converted to a three-story hotel room you can rent. It's super-unique and a real 'find'.
This old decrepit water tower is now a 3-story room you can rent.
You can see the bend in the far side of the bridge.
The owners of Parkfield, the Varian Family, have slowly built up the town, after purchasing 8000 acres in 1961, years later, adding a ranch house, and a restaurant with immense success in agri-tourism. Want to participate in a real-life cattle drive like in the movie 'City Slickers'. You can do that here. Into rodeos? They got that here too. The V6 Ranch expanded to 20,000 acres in time and currently covers about 31 square miles.
I started coming here in 2004 with motorcycle tour groups. In 2019, I introduced a motorcycle tour in April that stays in Parkfield, I book the entire town - all nine rooms. And the tour sold out in a day when I announced it. 2022 will be the fourth year we've come here, and the tour sold out by August for the coming season.
The rooms you stay in, there are several in the ranch house, but the original post office is now a room you can stay in. The original water tower, which for many years was a tool shed, has been converted to a three-story hotel room you can rent. It's super-unique and a real 'find'.
This old decrepit water tower is now a 3-story room you can rent.
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Strangest most fun thing we've seen here in Parkfield, due to all the earthquakes, the USGS has a permanent presence in the town, couple years ago, they had an earthquake machine set up, Jump up and down on the ground, and the machine would detect the vibration in the ground and the rods sticking up would move with the vibration of you walking near it.
I like the color though....
Bikers and new pavement have a thing.
As if there is no higher high than pavement so smooth and fresh, the lines haven’t been painted yet. Make that a deserted road, add in twists and turns, and you’ll have pure heaven. Childlike glee coalesces into mile-wide grins, fist bumps and high-fives. On the west side of Paso Robles is new pavement on Chimney Rock Rd smoother than a babies, well you know.
That leads to Cypress Mountain Rd. Surprise! Also new pavement laid down in 2018. Close enough.
As if there is no higher high than pavement so smooth and fresh, the lines haven’t been painted yet. Make that a deserted road, add in twists and turns, and you’ll have pure heaven. Childlike glee coalesces into mile-wide grins, fist bumps and high-fives. On the west side of Paso Robles is new pavement on Chimney Rock Rd smoother than a babies, well you know.
That leads to Cypress Mountain Rd. Surprise! Also new pavement laid down in 2018. Close enough.
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