This trip started on a Friday night, immediately after Last Minute Ryan exited his work office space. As we fueled up before heading out of the city, he said "can we just do this every weekend?"
The plan was to ride the highways directly to a reserved AirBnB; a perfect weekend hangout for a backcountry biker gang wanting a more civilized home base to switch things up. And the plan worked. It was a late dinner, yet we made it to the "Groovy '70s Pad" double-wide with a little excitement navigating unfamiliar paved twisties in the dark with fog. It was type two fun.
Late dinner went off without a hitch at a great dive called Copalis Cove Pub & Eatery. That was before we saw the Ocean Shores Sasquatch in the wild. Good stuff.
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| Copalis Cove Pub & Eatery |
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| Ocean Shores Sasquatch art installation |
The next morning had us enjoying the pad, complete with a table video game and a jukebox. That was before a walk out in the town to brunch.
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| Last Minute Ryan and E-rock in the pad hall |
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| E-rock on the Pac-Man Tabletop |
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| MotoBum -- Love with Wild Abandon |
In the afternoon, we took a highway ride up to Moclips and Taholah to ride on the beach and see the Quinault River. Mission success.
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| Ride the beach, yes |
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| The crew at the beach |
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| E-rock and Last Minute Ryan -- Welcome to Moclips |
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| The Quinault River meets the Pacific Ocean at Taholah |
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| Last Minute Ryan at Moclips |
Once back in Ocean Shores, we took in the jetty sights before the pub.
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| The Jetty |
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| Last Minute Ryan, MotoBum, and three birds |
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| MotoBum and E-rock with a big stick |
Later, the only media captured at The Garage Gastropub & Social were these of MotoBum and E-rock with a nice custom Washington state specialty design license plate, a Washington State University edition, with the letters "DC" on it, making it look like the plate says Washington DC. Well done. Also, we took some photos of a good looking wood-to-metal joint for big woods beams. We thought, perhaps, that Ghostface KLR would find them interesting.
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| MotoBum and E-rock with the "Washington (state) DC" plate |
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| The Washington state DC WSU licence plate -- pure crimson |
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| The Garage wood-to-metal joint |
After a restful night, we packed up, said "thank you" to the pad, and hit Aberdeen for the all famous Taqueria San Jose. Great tacos. Then, we took the scenic route along the south side of the Hood Canal before swinging north to see Swamp Monster at his Tahuya property.
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| Groovy '70s Pad in Ocean Shores, WA |
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| Taqueria San Jose in Aberdeen |
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| The Hood Canal |
Swamp Monster's place was looking a bit wild and free. That's just the way he likes it.
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| The Yurt |
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| The Goat |
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| The Swamp Monster |
In the end, crew data showed that a good time was had and a nice break from the routine occurred. It was the only moto outing for us in 2025. The trip was a reminder to not always seek the backcountry (which was Plan A before wildfire smoke set in). Instead, a classic road ride can be great.
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| Map of the tour |
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| E-rock's Honda Transalp dash shows 433.7 miles traveled |
