My driveway

[Deans BMW]

About the only rider in the Cafe that has had the privledge to ride in our driveway is supermotoC , several have asked about it so yesterday afternoon I took a few pics, kind of follows the great sounds thread in this section on how we live in the country, far from any utilities, street sweepers, garbage trucks, or the sheriff, for that matter.

This pic is just leaving our house and going up the hill, we live in a little valley.That is a carport on the right.

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Looking down the little hill with the dog walking away. That is our ATV on the right.

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Looking down the driveway at the top of the hill.

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A little further down the drive looking towards the property entrance.

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Looking up the driveway from the property entrance, Mz Pam loves to do dry stack rock walls. From this point on to the pavement is another 3 miles of dirt road that makes my driveway look like a freeway.

http://r1150r.smugmug.com/photos/55755177-M.jpg

I hope these pictorials of our place in the country are not boring. This is truly a far cry from living in the city. No one takes care of our driveway or dirt road, we are completely on our own......and we like it that way, we are in total control of our domain.

[DarthRider]

Dean-O, that's a manly driveway!
Can ya' get that quad sideways around the curves?
Where do you get a woman like that...make pies, stack rocks, make pies, stack rocks, make...?

Dave

[Deans BMW]

You bet, a full drift is a blast, also a top speed of 65 +

[socalrob]

With that driveway & a 3 mile dirt road you should buy an old Motor Grader (blade) for self maintenance. I understand you can pick things like that up pretty cheap, & since you would only drive it 100 miles a year, they last along time. My ex brother in law has 40 acres up by Morro Bay (Cayucos) & he owns a full on cement truck & buldozer.

I think it would be just kicks to play with construction trucks.

[supermotoC]

Is that Chainsaw walking away from us???

A city boy like me can only take SO much 4-wheeling, steak eating, PIE devouring, and all around good people (mostly Pam & Dean). And an unbelievable night sky. You haven't seen stars until you've sat on Dean-O's chairs out by the creek bed.

I can verify that you need skills to navigate his driveway, and too slowly WILL overheat your air/oil/hexhead engines. Good memories - I may see you later this spring, Dean-O, I've got a line on a rental GS1200 in Scottsdale in April/May....

click for the presbyopic among us....
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[Ed K]

Dean... I see what you mean about being "off-grid!" Looks fantastic to me, especially since one of my hobbies is (well, used to be when I had time) Astronomy... I don't think my wife would go for being off grid tho...

Prolly see quite a few meteors...and a fireball every now and again out there...especially around mid August during the Perseid Meteor Shower...

http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/perseids/images2001/Lucena1.jpg

[marko]

Dean
Looks like a great part of the world.
I know when i moved to the hills - outskirts of capital city, not as far as you - it took me a while to get used to the complete silence at night.
In the city there was a constant hum of distant traffic etc.
No doubt your silence is even more silent!

Looks like you should have a GS in the garage to join the ST and the R!

[DJ Down Under]

If I die and go to heaven...I hope heaven is just like Dean-O's place.

DJ

[Bill]

Dean O, your place looks like a good place to have our first ever Coffee Rally, but can U pave those dirt roads, our fragile bikes like only SuperSlab type surface. Do you do your coffee over open flame? StarBuck Camp Coffee would be great served with PIE.:021:

[Deans BMW]

Collyer, a visit sounds fantastic, and yes that is Chainsaw.

Ed K. yes we watch meteor showers, how do you spell it the Leonids in the winter are fantastic. The sky is so clear at night that the stars alone on a moonless nite provide enough light to hike with out any flashlights. On a clear night with a full moon, there is enough light to just see colors. Quiet is the understatement of the year, makes you realize just how noisy the citys are.

Bill, we do not use an electric coffee pot, coffee is always fresh ground, served piping hot and strong.

We have had more than a few visitors that I met with the ATV, I road their bike in and they drove the ATV.

And again, all are invited to visit.

[jb44]

Dean,

I have read with interest about your "off the grid" existence... would like to work towards that myself.

...just curious about the utility poles in the pictures of your driveway.... phone lines???

Thanks.
jb

[Dallara]

Wow, Dean...

That road leading into your place looks like a BLAST!

Hell, I'd love to come to visit you and Mz. Pam just to ride up and down your driveway all day!!! :026:


The strong coffee, great pies, thick steaks, endless stars, and most of all - great company - would just be icing on the cake.

Maybe I can get you and Mz. Pam to adopt me...

Cheers!

Allan (Dallara)

[Deans BMW]

Allan, I knew that you would get a kick out of our driveway :eusa_clap:

I was wondering when someone would ask about the telephone poles. At the property entrance some 10 or 15 years ago a property owner a mile or so away paid the phone company some $20.000.00 to run a phone line to their property, before cell phones. As it turns out, after a period of years the phone lines reverts to the phone company. Shortly after buying the property in 1996, the phone company had a special deal for us rural types, up to 1/2 mile of poles and wire free with phone instillation, well it was 1/2 mile to the inch from those existing phone lines that had reverted to the phone Co. to the origional cabin that was on the property. See the pic with Mz Pam standing beside it, this was the first time that we saw the cabin and property.

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We took advantage of the phone co. offer and it is a good thing because in our little valley, we do not get any Cell Signal.

The origional cabin was 16'X 24', just perfect for a weekend get away, had no plumbing, water or anything.

[Deans BMW]

A giant correction is in order, I just noticed that BMWDave52 is a member of the cafe. My very good and close friend Dave Waterman (BMWDave52) has been to our house for three different stays, two on his Beemer and once with his wife Nancy in their Cage. Can not wait for their next visit.

[taosports]

My driveway:

http://www.michaelmaloneyphotography.com/bmw/driveway.jpg

I feel so inadequate...

[DJ Down Under]

Here's my driveway right now....:icon_eek: ....I win for the most crap....:eusa_eh: ....at least it's a neat pile of crap..:icon_mrgreen:

DJ

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[R1150R in Africa]

My driveway (in South Africa, not Nigeria)

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[Ed K]

Hey guys...I've here in NY surrounded by the couple feet of snow away from warmer California, helping my mom after surgery and just catching up on the board.

Dean -- You must also get a nice clear view of the Milky Way... Do you have a telescope? If you have never seen a globular cluster, like M13 for example, through a good telescope on a moonless night in an area not polluted by artificial light, its a site you'll never forget. Globular clusters are one of the earliest known visible parts of universe.

[Deans BMW]

Ed, no we don't have a telescope, have talked about getting one however. The Milky is unbeliveable and vivid, lights up the sky and is a wonder to see. There is absolutely no light polution up here and with the very dry air and no polution what so ever the sky is unbeliveable. Every evening before I hit the sack, I go outside and just stare.

[Ed K]

Wow Dean, reminds of a place where I used to live off-campus in my college days 30 years ago. Place like that can give a man enough peace to live life to its fullest, not to mention, get closer to his maker.

Here's pic of M13...but it does not do it justice. It actually looks bluer and fainter in telescope. (This pic below is a time-laspe shot as most astronomical pics are.) This might sound strange, but M13 actually startled me the first time I saw it through my scope. Its the only celestial object of many that I've viewed, that had the effect.

http://www.af9y.com/m13c.jpg

If you're thinking about buying a scope, glad to provide some counsel, if needed...

Btw...when I get back to California this weekend...I need to take a pic of "Dean's Cafe"...yes...they have one in my home town...coming up to a pic posted to the Motorcyclist Cafe this weekend...