Blast off from San Francisco!

July.15->22.2009,
Departed San Francisco after nearly a week of chores! Few sooo boring!
Scuderia(which is a motorcycle shop dispite it's name) was awesome enough to accept my bike when I franticly called them nearly 4 weeks before asking if I could ship them the Blast from NY before going to South America. When I finally got to the shop to pick up the little guy I found him well taken care of! He was put on a battery tender, tires kept at pressure, and even put under a dust cover!
Scuderia had all the gear I was looking for the trip also. I would like to thank my father and Wilco for the show load-out I worked on the night before my plane for the west coast. That overnight gig bought me some nice new gear to keep me safe and comfortable!
More running all over town, trying to figure out how to get the growing assemblage of crap on to the back of the little bike. Sleeping bag, tent, air mattress, gear, tools, spare parts, maps and other implements of destruction. Did I put cloths on that list? Who needs those?!? Seriously though, cloths wound up being VERY low on the priority list, and only one spare set of base layers, and everything else was/is functional layers with limited purposes.
This picture was taken just before the journey to Seattle. The idea is to get the Seattle, which is only 1k-ish. Once there to put new tires on the bike, and switch out some gear depending on what works or was forgotten:)
I've got this romantic idea of riding up the coast on whatever roads possible. Don't know yet if route 1 goes all the way up the coast, I'm sure it will work itself out on the road.