ScottRNelson
Mr. Dual Sport Rider
I have to live somewhere that I can see mountains. No way I'm living in the flat land. Yeah, doesn't appeal at all to me.
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The Retire and Relocate Thread™
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berth
Well-known member
I visited Denver once.
You know, Denver. Colorado. Rocky Mountains. Great Divide?
No.
The Denver Airport in, I think, in Kansas. It is flat, flat, flat, and wide, wide, open.
I've lived around mountains my entire life, save for a short stretch in Stockton/Lodi area (can you see the foothills from there?).
So Cal with our ever present San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains, Tahoe and western Nevada with the Sierras. Even in the wastelands of Nevada, there are hills everywhere.
And I seriously think I had a slight bout of agoraphobia there in Denver. The horizon was far and wide and empty. It was actually jarring.
Cadman
Have bikes, will travel
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2008
- Location
- Redding
- Moto(s)
- '14 Ninja 1000
'05 ZX10
, '81 GPz550,
2003 ZRX1200,
2000 ZRX1100
- Name
- Bill
Redding
I will say, I miss the Bay Area weather, and the variety of roads and the friends I had there. I moved to Redding in May of 2018.
I have been very lucky at times in my life, and this is one of those times.
3,600 s.f. house on 2 acres with an over sized garage on one end and a 24x32 shop on the other. A year around creek is at the bottom of the lot. It looks like a park. This place sold for about half of what an ordinary Bay Area house on a small lot goes for. Yes, it gets hot in July and August, but I have learned to work around that. If it was not for those two months, this region would be sold out.
Great motorcycle roads, lakes, streams, and forest. Huge off road riding areas and strangers that will say Hi and offer to help you. My son lives in LA and was amazed at how friendly people are here. I have great neighbors here, and after the ones I had in Hayward, that is a big deal for me.
I live on the east side and the fires were no factor to me.
In the winter, the mountains are snow capped and pretty.
Now and then I am lonesome for the Bay Area (as I was born there and lived there all my life) but I will not be moving back.
Photos of the back yard and part of the shop.
I will say, I miss the Bay Area weather, and the variety of roads and the friends I had there. I moved to Redding in May of 2018.
I have been very lucky at times in my life, and this is one of those times.
3,600 s.f. house on 2 acres with an over sized garage on one end and a 24x32 shop on the other. A year around creek is at the bottom of the lot. It looks like a park. This place sold for about half of what an ordinary Bay Area house on a small lot goes for. Yes, it gets hot in July and August, but I have learned to work around that. If it was not for those two months, this region would be sold out.
Great motorcycle roads, lakes, streams, and forest. Huge off road riding areas and strangers that will say Hi and offer to help you. My son lives in LA and was amazed at how friendly people are here. I have great neighbors here, and after the ones I had in Hayward, that is a big deal for me.
I live on the east side and the fires were no factor to me.
In the winter, the mountains are snow capped and pretty.
Now and then I am lonesome for the Bay Area (as I was born there and lived there all my life) but I will not be moving back.
Photos of the back yard and part of the shop.
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And the mountains are on the wrong side. I kept going south when i thought i was going north.
Kornholio
:wave
Only if you find constant wind appealing.
I have to live somewhere that I can see mountains. No way I'm living in the flat land. Yeah, doesn't appeal at all to me.
Same.
OldMadBrit
Active member
- Joined
- Aug 15, 2006
- Location
- East Bay
- Moto(s)
- 1999/06 Frankenbike R1 - sold
2003 Caponord ETV - sold
2017 R1M - sold
2016 Tuono 1100 Factory
- Name
- Steve
THIS!
I visited Boulder with my daughter some years ago. She scored a very attractive scholarship and was interested in going - until she experienced Denver Airport and was completely freaked out by the vast flat plane between it and the Rockies. Once we got up into the Rockies, she was less freaked out, until she caught a view out over the plains.
It turns out that our need to be near hills and a coastline is a shared genetic trait.
dtrides
Active member
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2004
- Location
- Redding, Ca.
- Moto(s)
- Husqvarna for the dirt, gsxr 750 for the track
- Name
- Duncan
Ok, pretty much official.
Hyper and I are now residents of Redding, Ca.
Escrow closes next week on our (nearly) new home and I cant wait.
We have ben living in our RV with two dogs for some time and I am ready to stretch ouuuut....and have a garage again!
We are on the outskirts on the west side of town in a newer area.
The new digs have what we were looking for at a price we could still afford.
Plenty of room, 3 car ( 20 bike? ) garage, Rv parking with full hook ups, eastern facing for that morning sun etc.
Looking forward to settling in.
DT
Hyper and I are now residents of Redding, Ca.
Escrow closes next week on our (nearly) new home and I cant wait.
We have ben living in our RV with two dogs for some time and I am ready to stretch ouuuut....and have a garage again!
We are on the outskirts on the west side of town in a newer area.
The new digs have what we were looking for at a price we could still afford.
Plenty of room, 3 car ( 20 bike? ) garage, Rv parking with full hook ups, eastern facing for that morning sun etc.
Looking forward to settling in.
DT
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dtrides
Active member
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2004
- Location
- Redding, Ca.
- Moto(s)
- Husqvarna for the dirt, gsxr 750 for the track
- Name
- Duncan
Yes, thanks!
I have enough room behind the gates for two 30' rv's so friends can stay with their trailers as well.
DT
lizard
Active member
- Joined
- May 13, 2003
- Location
- next to my dog....
- Moto(s)
- <-- I'd give them up forever if I could have Arnold for 1 more year
Very nice home. Thanks for sharing.
ScottRNelson
Mr. Dual Sport Rider
Congratulations on the new place. It's not official until you sign all of the papers, pay all of the money, and get the keys. But you're very, very close. 
You'll only be able to fit about 8 bikes in there if you want to be able to get all of them out without moving something else for some of them. Otherwise you'll end up stacking them in something like this:
Very nice. What subdivision (name) is this? I'm quite curious and would like to check in to it further. Thanks, Ken
Congratulations on the new place. It's not official until you sign all of the papers, pay all of the money, and get the keys. But you're very, very close.
You'll only be able to fit about 8 bikes in there if you want to be able to get all of them out without moving something else for some of them. Otherwise you'll end up stacking them in something like this:
Just leaning a cool old RM on its side against some boxes...is your grass three feet tall too??
ScottRNelson
Mr. Dual Sport Rider
That was a long, long time ago in Pleasanton. The Ducati Monster in the photo got wrecked more than 20 years ago.
My current motorcycle parking area looks more like this:
ScottRNelson
Mr. Dual Sport Rider
1992 YZ250 and 1994 RM250. 1996 and 1997 Monsters.
WoodsChick
I Don't Do GPS
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2005
- Location
- Oakland
- Moto(s)
- GasGas EP280, CR125, Husky WR165, 2 SM610's, 1 TE610, 3 TR650's, FZR400/600, GSXR750, KTM 450EXC
- BARF perks
- AMA #: 489282
Wow...great looking house! Love the roofline. Congratulations!
arty And that driveway 
We share a single lane driveway with our neighbor, and it leads to our very small 1-car garage. Congratulations on the new place. It's not official until you sign all of the papers, pay all of the money, and get the keys. But you're very, very close.
You'll only be able to fit about 8 bikes in there if you want to be able to get all of them out without moving something else for some of them. Otherwise you'll end up stacking them in something like this:
Don't listen to him, DT! You don't need that kind of negativity
This is our aforementioned single-car garage and there are more than 8 bikes in it
And, well, yeah...we do need to move things around sometimes
HuskyHoarderChick