We left a cold and dreary Yellowstone Park behind and made our way into clear weather westward. A loop around Lake Tahoe and cruise northward through the California mountains into Oregon. Most of this part of the country is new to me. We head to the coastal redwoods and down Highway 1, with waves crashing on the rocks below and the spray cooling the air we ride through. Fog drifting ashore coats the valleys as we drop low to the beaches then back above into the hills. It's like that all the way to San Francisco.