About two weeks ago I asked for suggestions for trips around Phoenix for a week-long visit we would have to the area. Thanks very much to all who responded with great ideas.
We stayed in Mesa with friends who arrived earlier and had an opportunity to scope the area for a few weeks ahead of us. In five days of riding we rode:
1. Out to Tortilla Flats. Short ride on a beautiful, tortured bit of asphalt! Great burgers and an excellent band.
2. To see the fountain at Fountain Hills, and out toward Payson, back past Saguaro Lake.
3. Up Hwy 17 to Sedona, back through Jerome, Prescott, and Wickenburg. This was a most amazing trip, close to 400 miles with fantastic mountain roads on the return side from Sedona. Excellent!! The downside was 40 miles of freeway between Mesa and Hwy 17 out of town; I have never experienced freeways/traffic like that!! In hindsight, it would have been a good idea to have made this an overnighter and gone on up to Flagstaff.
4. Out to Globe via Oracle and Superior, good roads and scenery and a great Chinese food buffet lunch at Globe.
5. Out to Payson, and again back by Saguaro Lake. Excellent for a 4 lane highway, and the back road past the lake is a beautiful ride.
We rented a GL1800 ABS from Arizona FunTime Rentals; great service from Jerry, and what a fantastic bike. I understand well how most on this board are such enthusiasts. The fine Valk Interstate waiting out winter in my garage has some career security issues...
Great friends, bikes, weather, roads and destinations made for an excellent riding vacation. We enjoyed near perfect weather for the week, now back home in the cold and wet waiting for April.
Don
We stayed in Mesa with friends who arrived earlier and had an opportunity to scope the area for a few weeks ahead of us. In five days of riding we rode:
1. Out to Tortilla Flats. Short ride on a beautiful, tortured bit of asphalt! Great burgers and an excellent band.
2. To see the fountain at Fountain Hills, and out toward Payson, back past Saguaro Lake.
3. Up Hwy 17 to Sedona, back through Jerome, Prescott, and Wickenburg. This was a most amazing trip, close to 400 miles with fantastic mountain roads on the return side from Sedona. Excellent!! The downside was 40 miles of freeway between Mesa and Hwy 17 out of town; I have never experienced freeways/traffic like that!! In hindsight, it would have been a good idea to have made this an overnighter and gone on up to Flagstaff.
4. Out to Globe via Oracle and Superior, good roads and scenery and a great Chinese food buffet lunch at Globe.
5. Out to Payson, and again back by Saguaro Lake. Excellent for a 4 lane highway, and the back road past the lake is a beautiful ride.
We rented a GL1800 ABS from Arizona FunTime Rentals; great service from Jerry, and what a fantastic bike. I understand well how most on this board are such enthusiasts. The fine Valk Interstate waiting out winter in my garage has some career security issues...
Great friends, bikes, weather, roads and destinations made for an excellent riding vacation. We enjoyed near perfect weather for the week, now back home in the cold and wet waiting for April.
Don
