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So I strayed a bit with that whole fashion photography story I last posted, sorry about that Johnny O.

I am now the proud, very proud but very broke, owner of a 950 Adventure. The thing is awesome. I have done a few rides up to the Sandia Ski area and what have you, as well as commuting to work just about everyday. But this weekend I got to test out the whole ride it and camp aspect.

I took off from my house and went down into the Rio Grande Valley and headed north. I got up to Bernalillo and headed in the opposite direction from my real destination as I went to Placitas and then up the dirt road that comes out just about at the Sandia Ski Area. From there I went up towards Madrid where I took a road that went back west toward I-25 and the Santo Domingo gas station. From there I went up to Cochiti, cruised right on by my Mom's house (she wasn't home or I would have stopped) and up the Dome road. I was chasing the rain, so the traction was just awesome the whole day. From the Dome road I made it to graduation flats and headed over towards the North Pass trail, didn't ride that of course but went down the road to the highway in the Valle Caldera. From there I went west, and just miles from my final destination, I turned back south on the Forest Road 10 and went down to Poderosa. Once there, I went up toward Jemez on got on Forest Road 376 through the Gilman tunnels and finally made it to the camp site at the top of 376.

I met up with a bunch of my friends from work. We got a really nice place to camp. We drank a lot of beer, told a lot of stories and laughed a hell of a lot. It was a good time. There were a few catch phrases that the trip will be remembered by; "SPARTANS!!!", "Mona, No, No.", and "Come here ladies". The "come here ladies" was the call for all the dogs, there were six of them running around, it was pure chaos!! But had they been ill behaved dogs it would have been another story completely, but they were all really good.

I got up early and left around 7:30. I was kinda in a hurry to get home so it was just down the highway to the Dome road, a stop off at Mom's house for some breakfast and then down to Santo Domingo, the back way to San Felipe and then down to Algodones, Bernalillo and finally home. Not too much of an adventure, hardly even off the beaten path but its a start. Who konws, maybe I will just head out one day and you all can read about a true adventure on Advrider.com!!!

Peace.