Baja, and rolling on the break-in miles…

Guys and gals, I’ll email the Baja hotel info to you tomorrow or Friday.  As you might imagine, things have been busy around here!  But busy or not, I left a bit early today because I wanted to put a few more break-in miles on my RX3.  As you know, I have the fast one (that is to say, mine is orange).  I say that in jest, of course.   Everybody thinks their color is faster.   I picked orange because I like it.   But I like the blue, too.  And the white.   And the red.   You just can’t go wrong with any of these colors.

So, on to my ride.   My favorite spot outside of Baja is…you guessed it…Glendora Ridge Road!   You’ve heard me brag about Glendora Ridge Road many times, but what you may not know is that GRR is one of the premier wildflower spots in the entire United States.  Hey, it’s April, everything is in bloom, and I figured I’d go for a few RX3 beauty shots in wildflower heaven.   This blog entry might load a bit slower because I sized the photos at 900 pixels (they’re bigger than usual).  If you click on any of them, you’ll see the larger version.

A shot in front of the rock pile just past the start of Glendora Ridge Road. It’s Rattlesnake City in those rocks…you don’t want to go poking around in there!

Red wildflowers just in front of the RX3. I was going to do this big botanical study and find all of these flowers’ scientific names, but I think I’ll just give them my own names. These are called red wildflowers.

Yellow wildflowers.

Purple wildflowers. These are pretty cool.

I think these purple flowers are a poppy of some sort.

More yellow wildflowers, with some purple thrown in.

A view from the RX3 cockpit along Glendora Ridge Road.

More yellow wildflowers…yellow is the dominant color up there, with at least three different kinds of flowers.

At the junction of Glendora Mountain Road and Glendora Ridge Road.

Yours truly, living large and thinking about Baja…we leave in one week!

All of the above photos were with my little Nikon D3300 and its kit 18-55 lens.  It’s a small camera, and it’s what I’m bringing with me next week when we ride Baja.   That package (the D3300 camera and the lens) is ideal for the kind of riding we’ll be doing.   Trust me on this…you don’t want to ride Baja without a camera!

Adios for now, amigos and amiga!