Wild West Motorcycle Tour

We hope you have had a relaxing flight as now its time to FIRE UP, and get ready for your epic Wild West ride. Take the shuttle bus to your L.A. hotel. Meet and greet with your Wild West guide and fellow riders will be in the foyer of the hotel. Allocation of bikes in next, followed later with a brief of the fine details of your impending trip. So now get some rest or check out L.A.’s night life in Hollywood or Santa Monica. Shake off the jet lag for tomorrow your journey into the Wild West begins.

First its coffee and our welcome breakfast. Now what we have all been waiting for, we pick up our bikes and have some orientation time to get to know your new trusty steed and what’s in store for the rest of the day. Lets GO! We ride to Lake Elsinore for lunch. Take in the cool breeze as we meander up to the mountainous road into the San Bernardino National Forest. Something to behold, is the ride down into Palm Springs. Time to relax in this sun-kissed oasis where the “The Rat Pack” lived, loved and played. Enjoy the night life on offer.

Joshua Tree National Park is first on the agenda as we ride through taking in the exotic desert trees and unusual rock formations. Next challenge is the massive Mojave Desert. Would you believe we have just hit the “Mother Road”, Route 66 who will be our companion for the rest of our ride across the desert into Nevada where we will bunk down in the old casino town of Laughlin.

Route 66 takes us into into Arizona to Kingman, in the middle of the longest remaining stretch of the old “America’s Highway”. Now we ride to Seligman via the Hualapai Indian Reservation. Once lunch is finished in Seligman we ride to one of the most incredible natural wonders, The Grand Canyon!

After taking in the views, we ride the South Rim eventually leaving Grand Canyon National Park at the East entrance. It just keeps coming, Monument Valley is next. you probably wont see a more classic wild west scene with its huge buttes and rock formations, this ancestral home of the Navajo Native Americans will take your breath away. It is as you have seen on all the old wild west movies. Tonight you can choose to drop into the valley and listen to Navajo Guides tell their spiritual stories.

This morning we ride to sleepy Mexican Hat, an old gold-mining camp. We pass where the movie “Thelma and Louise” was filmed, the Valley of the Gods, then its over the Colorado River where it meets Lake Powell. Bryce Canyon is our next overnight and to get there we need to ride along the southern edge of Capitol Reef National Park, the sandstones of the Devil’s Backbone and finally through the Escalante Wilderness. Time too reflect on what we have just seen. This we will never forget.

After breakfast, we check out Bryce Canyon and then head to Zion National Park. Don’t let its unique beauty fool you, we are about to experience the challenging switchbacks of Zion! On to Vegas Baby, its only a short ride to this desert oasis of fun.

Take time out to explore, gamble, whatever you want, but remember tomorrow is an early start.

Get ready to cross Death Valley – the hottest place on earth! No shade here, as this place is aptly named with its rugged and dry landscape. After winding down the mountains we find ourselves in the basin of Death Valley after descending hundreds of feet below sea level. We continue west, eventually winding our way out of the valley to greet the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and stay overnight at Mammoth Lakes. Yes the ski area, today we crossed Death Valley below sea level and now we are 7000 feet above sea level.

Today we climb Tioga Pass to cross Yosemite National Park. Winding through granite granite canyons can be a bit of a workout for the first few kilometres and then, behold, the mother of all National Parks, Yosemite. Words are hard to describe this majestic natural wonder. Next we head to El Portal for the night.

Our goal today is San Francisco. We drop through California Gold Rush country passing small mining towns mining towns on our way to the wealthiest county in the USA, the beautiful coastal regions of Marin County. This region enjoys sandy beaches, high mountains, and thick redwood forests and from here we see the Golden Gate Bridge. To enter San Francisco we cross this engineering marvel. We ride along the waterfront finishing in the heart of the city. Spend the next 2 days exploring all that San Francisco has to offer.

A free day to indulge yourself in anything you want. There are lots of opportunities for sight seeing including a city bus tour, a Cable Car, Chinatown and Union Square. Soak up the city.

Today is a real pleasure as we head south on one of the best motorcycle rides in the world, Pacific Coast Highway (Hwy 1) hugging the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Make sure you have a camera at the ready as there are any photo ops on this spectacular ride. Monterey / Carmel is our next stop. Monterey is home to Cannery Row, Aquarium of the Sea.

Continuing down Hwy 1, along the cliffs of the Big Sur Coast – 90 undeveloped miles of rocky cliffs where redwood groves line river canyons. We ride past San Simeon winding through Cambria and the monolith of Morro Bay arriving in Pismo Beach for the night.

Today we head to Los Angeles. Next is coffee in Santa Barbara and then on to Malibu. Santa Monica, Venice Beach to Hawthorne, where it’s time to return your motorcycles and transfer back to your hotel to get ready for our “Good-bye” dinner.

Departure. Please take the hotel shuttle and transfer to Los Angeles International Airport.