Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Vintage Bikes From Nepal


There are always surprises in store at Forrest's parent's hippie home among the redwoods near Point Reyes, California. Last weekend we went up for the usual fare of fresh seafood (mussels harvested from Tomales Bay earlier that day), good conversation and good wine, a few too many bottle as usual.

Forrest's folks had just returned from their winter's hiatus in Nepal and his dad Charles was busy shipping vehicles back to the States out in front of their eventual permanent departure from Asia. In addition to the vintage Triumph motorcycle pictured above, there was an old BMW bike and this cherry red Indian:
These well-cared-for bikes are holdovers from Charles' days leading motorcycle-tours of the Himalayas with the likes of Ry Cooder and Gary Busey.

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