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2009 Palm Springs

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Well we're finally back home from our over 3 week trip down south. First Snowbird trip if you will. The Ladysmith January weather (as in most places) was the pits so we decided to go for 10-14 days down to Palm Springs to visit some friends and see if we wanted to do this kind of thing. The trip down was uneventful crossing the border quick after leaving mid-day from the island and getting into Vancouver at 3:00 pm. It takes 3 days to do it with truck and camper. We stayed in Bayview St Park the 1st nite, then drove down thru all of Washington and most of Oregon on the Friday, stopping at Valley of the Rogue St Park there. Nice camping, warm temp's, cheap rates. Stopped in Medford the next morning and found by chance the Motorcycle Superstore, a great online web store for M/C gear. Spent a couple of hours there and sized ourselves up for new color matched helmets and warmer weather armoured riding gear for our trip to Europe. We then left and headed south staying overnight just