We decided to do a short loop in the desert last Friday. The weather was very pleasant under partly cloudy skies, with very little breeze, basically perfect riding weather. We started at Yaqui Wells Camp and rode the Grapevine trail to Jasper trail, then down Montezuma grade to Borrego Springs, where we stopped at Carlee's for lunch. After lunch we spent a lot of time clowning around with the sheet metal sculptures that dot the landscape along Borrego Springs road, before hitting Marrrows/Old Borrego Springs trail back across the desert headed back to our staging spot. A Friday well spent. At Yaqui Wells Camp. Fun with sculptures. The serpent.... bigger than you think. Eek! The bugs are big out there. Augh! Don't eat me! More to come.
No grapes of wrath here. Just the attack of the "bunny ears". A desert vista or two. Marrows trail. Somewhere out on Old Borrego Springs road. View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7r_BXpFrBI
Hi Dirt Dame, you have been a bit MIA of late and we have missed your reports. Thanks for sharing this one. What fantastic sculptures. Looking forward to more from you soon.
Your 07 is looking really nice! Are you sure you ride that bike? BTW I love the graphix, where did you get them? I find it amazing that I have read through coutless ride reports on advrider and on other sites and have never seen those sculptures. Can you tell us any history about them. That would take some serious dedication to complete just one of those let alone all the stuff you shown us.
The bike has over 9000 miles/400 hours on it. That works out to an average speed of 22.5 miles per hour, so you can see that a lot of it has been trail riding miles. The graphics are from DeCal Works. I think that exact design has been discontinued, but they still have lots of other great patterns for Husqvarnas. A somewhat local (Riverside county) artist does the sculpture. What is pictured here, is just a minor amount of the dozens of elephants, birds, dinosaurs, horses, bugs, assorted other critters and human figures strewn about in Borrego Springs. The work is also along the road on route 79 out of Temecula in the form of a giant rattle snake, stage coach and a small herd of horses. The artist's name is Ricardo Breceda, and his place of business is quite visible from the freeway as you drive north through Perris. http://ricardoabreceda.com/
