tour reports » 1964 motorcycle trip to Yosemite photos

I came across these photos of a trip during late June, 1964, that I and two friends took to Bishop, California, located on the east side of the Serra Nevada Mountain range, where we stayed the night at the motel shown in photo 41. The next day we rode back home via Yosemite. I was riding a red 1964 Honda Super Hawk, one friend was riding a white 1963 Honda Super Hawk and the other friend was riding a white 1963 Honda 250 Dream. After staying the night in Bishop, we rode through Yosemite and spent much of the day there checking out the park and taking photos, before returning home to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Love these pictures Richard! Thanks for sharing! Hope to see you around the bay.

If you really want to see something strange, I could post a bunch of photos of my trip during 1967 to the San Blas Islands, off the coast of Panama, while I was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. No motorcycles, though. We traveled by DC-3 to a rough airfield in the jungle and then rode in a dugout canoe to the islands. If anyone is interested just let me know.

June.. wow look at that snow !

This has to be one of the bestest posts ever on this forum. Thanks Richard fora doing this. It’s a bit of work scanning those old photos! And, yes, I’d be interested in your trip to the islands also. Thanks for posting.

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This has to be one of the bestest posts ever on this forum. Thanks Richard fora doing this. It’s a bit of work scanning those old photos! And, yes, I’d be interested in your trip to the islands also. Thanks for posting.

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Great photos and memories!

Fantastic record of cars, clothes, bikes etc

Brilliant!

Here is a photo of my only transportation while during the 18 months that I spent in Panama. I had a lot of fun riding around the slightly-paved leftover WWII roads through the jungles of Panama, other than the one time I rounded a corner and found myself riding through hundreds of huge tarantulas migrating across the trail. Fortunately, somehow I missed quashing a single one. I imagine it would not have provided very good traction. And then there was the time that I was riding in a friend's car and had a boa constrictor fall out of an overhanging tree on to the car's hood. That was one time I was happy to be riding in a car and not on my Suzuki.
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Great photos Richard!

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Zitat von Bob Aint Stoppin im Beitrag #5

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This has to be one of the bestest posts ever on this forum. Thanks Richard fora doing this. It’s a bit of work scanning those old photos! And, yes, I’d be interested in your trip to the islands also. Thanks for posting.

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Well, since you asked: Here my version of a National Geographic adventure to see the San Blas Indians and their homes. And sorry, there will not be any pictures of topless Indian women. The first photo was taken at the Panama City International Airport and the last two photos were shot in Panama City, just to give you a taste of what the place looked like in 1967. Lucky for you there is no way for you to smell the "suburbs" of the city, which consisted of metal shacks supported by piers over a swamp. I'll let you imagine how the plumbing worked in those homes.

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Thanks for the pics Richard.

I now recall the name of the restaurant in La Honda that hosted the musical group back in the day. It was called The Merry Prankster. It was named after that group of musicians that hung out there for a while.