The First Ride! - Toquerville, UT - 6/6/09

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I obtained a Utah "unlimited 650cc+" motorcycle license last Thursday, June 4th, 2009. To kick off my new hobby as a cruiser, I went on my first official ride with my brother Stephen. Stephen had previously let me use his 1400cc Suzuki Boulevard to pass the 650cc+ rider test.

We had planned to go to Zion National Park, but Stephen woke up Saturday morning with some bad cold symptoms. We were going to cancel completely, but as he felt better later in the day we decided to take a short jaunt to our old stomping grounds of Hurricane and Toquerville, UT.

We started the journey by giving my bike an oil change (only has 2200 miles on it, but it's a decade old...). Then we headed out with him in the lead. We took the back way to Hurricane along Telegraph Road in Washington to avoid the freeway. Along the way we wanted to stop at Biker's World in Hurricane but unfortunately it was closed temporarily for construction. So we went on to Toquerville and had a fantastic trip down memory lane. What a beautiful little town. So much has changed yet so much as remained the same. I am hitting myself for not bringing a camera. I won't make that mistake again. Future posts will include photos.

One cool thing about this blog is the use of the maps. I will have a map of the trip in each post and the header of the blog will be the next trip planned. The maps are courtesy of Google.