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No kids this weekend. It had rained Friday, but it is clear now. I decide to head out on the ½ day trip, leaving the house at 11:00. I get to the Santa Monica Mountains NRA Visitors Center and locate the stamp. This is easy. I have been all around the country and had been to many of the parks that I will be revisiting, but I hadn’t really noticed the stamps before. This is also a ‘two-fer’ location. The Juan Bautista de Anza NHT stamp is also there. Since I will be following the trail up to Ventura, I also collected that stamp. After a quick glance around since I hadn’t been there before (I ride all over the NRA – the Rock Store is within the boundaries, but never went to the visitors center), I head on out. Just as I am getting on the freeway, I remember Ayres losing his receipts and reach up and check that my jacket pocket had the passport book. I resolve to make photocopies of the page on Monday at work. I then went on to the Channel Island NP Visitor center in Ventura Harbor. A beautiful day, you can see the closer islands very clearly. Usually the ocean haze is blocking the way. I started reminiscing about the time when my parents lived nearby and had a boat. We would sleep just offshore of the islands. I’ve been to the VC before, so it is a quick walk in, get stamps (J B de A NHT is also here), and get out. I come home via a number of back roads that I haunt regularly. Total of 132 miles, 4 stamps, 3 parks, and one state. I am keyed up for another ride, so I spend the evening planning another day trip and loading the waypoints into the GPS. My ZRX1200R is only good for 120-170 miles on a tank full, so I carefully plan gas stops.
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