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Up early to a beautiful morning. Room had a view of the lake and the surrounding area the water was like glass. Packed up our stuff to get ready for our ride then headed down to the pier. John had to pass on the seadoo ride, he was in too much pain from the pounding ride from yesterday evening so Steve and I took both the seadoo’s out on a picture perfect glass lake. We did try to get Jimmy to go but he passed again  Can anybody say “YeeHaw”  what a difference between waves and glass. Then it was back on the bikes to our new adventure. Started the ride following along the lake, climbing the hills and going from one perfect Vista to another. Stopped at Inspiration Point. (Emerald Bay). Such amazing views…… God is Great! Followed the 89 through the mountains. Stopped at a small town for lunch which was surprisingly very good. Then on to Bates Motels, no words can describe our initial thoughts lol. Turned out that John and Sharon’s room had a surprise,  Lmao but the food was very good. (I’m having the best time with these amazing people) That’s all for today. Good night.

Packed up and left Mammoth on a scenic route 395 to Twin Lakes. Coffee break in Bridgeport at cute 1800’s cafe and on to Twin Lakes.nbsp; D
Riding down the 395 the views were gorgeous.nbsp; You could see many areas where the past fires had taken out large areas of vegetation that now have new growth. Then from the 395 cut up the 89 which was a nice zig gag mountain road, pavement was perfect, doesn’t get any better than that. Stopped in Markleville for lunch and preceeded up the 89 and turned up the 50 to our home for the night Beach Retreat Lodge. Laundry, a walk down the pier. we saw the seadoo’s and decided we wanted to go for a ride. So we reserved a slot at 5 o’clock. Jimmy V. passed on the seadoo’s and went to see his friend that lives in area. We did some shopping, finished laundry (lost John’s chonnies) and went back to the pier for our ride. Water level is down about 7 feet from normal and you can walk out past the end of the pier in ankle deep water. By the time we got to go it was 5:20 pm and the wind had picked up making it a very choppy ride. We came in early and scheduled the rest of our ride for the morning.nbsp; Cleaned up and headed for the Sushi bar. Had a great dinner, Jimmy made it back and joined us. Another great day on the rode.

We started the day by (Steve and I) going for a short walk up the ski slopes. BS had to wrestle a momma bear in front of her cubs. Sorry no pictures, having a problem uploading. By the time we returned everyone else was finally up, even Jimmy V. We went into town for groceries for the hike. Took the bus from hell, 180 degrees inside, NO a/c, no windows to open and down a typical curvy mountain road ( can anyone say “Ralph” lol) Jimmy and John stayed on the bus to meet us up with us down the road. We got off and started on our 30 mile hike, well it was only about 4 1/2 miles. Hiked up to Devils Post and then down to Rainbow Falls. It was a beautiful hike and warmed up on the way back. Met up with John and Jimmy for lunch at Red Lodge restaurant. Then the dreaded bus ride back up was worse this time, we were all feeling nauseous. Rode back to the condo. We decided the jacuzzi was needed cuz everybody feels better after a jacuzzi. John then challenges Steve to a ping pong match where he accused BS of cheating. ..lol (so we all know who won) Took a short break, and lots of tall tales being told. Schat’s Bakery run then it was off to dinner and another night of Mammoth Rocks. We saw a great Van Halen tribute band Atomic Punks. Another great day comes to an end.

This is BS taking over Jimmy V’s blog. We are going on a road trip once again along for the ride will be John and Sharon Pultorak of course Jimmy V myself and Kelani. This will be Kelani’s first big ride so she will be taking over this blog once we are on the road. We will be leaving Friday morning from the Pultorak’s. And heading north I guess we will know were we are going once we git there. See you on the road. BS.
JimmyV.  Yes, we r going to put Kelani to work, but u may get some interaction from BS and JV from time to time…  I got a text for a 7:00 am departure time.. WTF!  I thought this was vacation, lol.   I don’t even get up for work at that time… But I guess to ride it will be good 😃

Packing up!