 | | The start of our motorcycle road trip! The plan was to meet up in Boron, CA, otherwise known as BFE. I'm going to meet Lance Rushing at the Kramer Junction Roadhouse Restaurant where our old roommate Chad Miller worked (he wouldn't be coming with us though)
Boron, CA
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 | | Lance Rushing with the Millers.
Boron, CA
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 | | Fry cook extrodinaire! Chad Miller working his magic paying for school.
Kramer Junction, CA
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 | | Dropping into Death Valley.
Death Valley, CA
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 | | I think this is the scene of our coasting contest. We coasted our bike for 14 miles from the top, i had to rev the engine so it wouldn't die as it was getting cold. Yeah, i didn't have the best POS bike in the world : )
Death Valley, CA
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 | | So apparently people come here to vacation, and not to gawk at the funny people and rocks like we did.
Furnace Creek, Death Valley, CA
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 | | A volcanic crater formed with a boom.
Death Valley, CA
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 | | Lance Rushing posing next to nothing
Death Valley, CA
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 | | I mean, come'on. We had to pose next to the sign.
Death Valley, CA
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 | | It looks like a desert but it's cold! I froze my ass off on my sportbike... lance had heated grips on his BMW... that bastard. He did let me ride it though...
Death Valley, CA
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 | | Hahaha... Lance freezing his ass off cleaning road grime and soot from the burning picnic table off. Haha... i snuck into the resort to get a warm shower.
Furnace Creek, Death Valley, CA
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 | | Another picture of the resort... a resort for have's, not have-nots like us. We were poor undergrads remember...
Furnace Creek, Death Valley, CA
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 | | The painted rocks of the desert. Interesting rock/mineral formations out here.
Death Valley, CA
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 | | So our 3rd night was supposed to be in Vegas... but we weren't about to spend $59.99 on a hotel room so we kept going...
Las Vegas, NV
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 | | The old MGM. This will be a 13 hour motorcycle day. Yeah, my ass hurt. And not just because of the Circus-Circus $2.99 breakfast...
Las Vegas, NV
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 | | So we ended up heading back to LA to crash as Quan's parent's house. Unbeknownst to me there was something going on between those two... anyways here we are checking out the floats for the Rose Bowl Parade.
Pasadena, CA
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 | | The Honda float.
Pasadena, CA
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 | | Lance, the other scruffy Lance, and Quan.
Griffith Observatory, CA
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 | | No, that's not their kid. They'll squirt out a few themselves shortly though : )
Rosemead, CA
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 | | So i pulled up to my mom's house just a few minutes past midnight, 1 Jan 1007.
Vista, CA
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