Norcal/Central Valley Ride

pgermond · #1 (**permalink**) 09-17-2007, 09:49 PM

I'm hoping when a date is set I am not committed. There are some awesome roads around Murphy's and Arnold. This is a motorcycle site http://www.pashnit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8015 however, these are Cobra roads as well - Hwy 4, Mosquito Lake, and Ebbitts Pass do indeed (IMO) qualify as the top of the world in California.

PatBuckley · #2 (**permalink**) 09-17-2007, 11:33 PM

How about the weekend of October 26/27?

I went to Murphy's on Saturday afternoon and checked out some hotels.

Two choices:

The Murphy's Inn - A nice motel for about a hundred bucks a night that has rooms available on that week end and can accomodate 8 cars and who will set aside parking spots for us. $103/night. http://www.centralsierralodging.com/cloud9_001.htm

The Dunbar House - A really nice Bed and Breakfast that is more like $230 a night. The Dunbar House. http://www.dunbarhouse.com/html/rooms.htm

I checked for the last weekend in October (26/27?) and the Dunbar House will let us have the whole place, all 5 rooms, for $2400 for two nights (minimum)....this is a quite upscale Bed and Breakfast and includes the usual BnB amenities.....see link above.

Perhaps a combination of the two places? They are about a block and a half away from each other. The whole damned town is only about 8 blocks long.

Would anyone be interested in coming up Friday afternoon, do dinner, then the next morning drive over the mountain to Markleeville or something and then back for dinner in Murphy's - then leave for home Sunday morning after breakfast?

I am open to suggestions.....!

decooney · #3 (**permalink**) 09-18-2007, 12:08 AM

Pat,
I think we're in, and I could meet you guys up there for at least one night if you stay over two nights. The dunbar place looks pretty nice, but it's one night only, huh?, or maybe you could see if they would provide a group discount per unit with early/advanced reservations for a block of rooms. Is there anything to walk around and look at while we are there; water, stream, etc? Let us know. Thanks for getting this going. Duane

PatBuckley · #4 (**permalink**) 09-18-2007, 10:01 AM

The whole area is rich with activities - antique stores, rivers, bars, neat restaurants, mining stuff, vineyards......

The Dunbar House is pretty popular - the only break they could offer was to rent the whole place for two nights for $2400 - 5 rooms which works out to an average per night room price of $240. One of the rooms is $165 and others are as much as $275. As I mentioned, the two hotels I think were the most acceptable are with a couple of blocks of each other.

I think for reasons of manageablity this should be no more than 10 cars -

IOW - if you would like to go, please let me know asap.

I would expect that you would make your own hotel reservations - what I have provided is just a guide.

pgermond · #5 (**permalink**) 09-18-2007, 10:51 AM

I'm in, albeit one night (Murphy's Inn) and most likely solo. I would like to take the drive over the summit, so I'm not sure which night would be best. If the drive takes place on Saturday I would probably stay over Friday night, drive to Markleeville on Sat, and on to Myers/hwy 50 and home.

Let me know, and thanks for the event planning

pgermond · #6 (**permalink**) 10-11-2007, 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pgermond

I'm in, albeit one night (Murphy's Inn) and most likely solo. I would like to take the drive over the summit, so I'm not sure which night would be best. If the drive takes place on Saturday I would probably stay over Friday night, drive to Markleeville on Sat, and on to Myers/hwy 50 and home.

Let me know, and thanks for the event planning

I'm assuming the drive is on Saturday, and includes Markleeville. Is anyone else from NorCal planning on going down Friday and taking the route described in the quote above and heading home on Saturday?

jmarsey · #7 (**permalink**) 10-20-2007, 11:26 PM

I have a room reservation for Saturday night if anyone is interested. They may be sold out but don’t know for sure. I will cancel the room on Wednesday or Thursday if no takers. PM me if interested.

I really wanted to make this event but turns out my favorite uncle from Chicago will be visiting and he loves to ride in the cobra. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to take him to Sears and cruise the beautiful wine country all weekend.

Pat & Jamo, thanks for the invite and putting this together. I’ll catch you guys down the road.

Have a great time, John

PatBuckley · #8 (**permalink**) 10-20-2007, 11:53 PM

Bring your uncle!