![\"Me.](\"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/riding.jpg\" "\\"riding\\"")
<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Me. On a Nighthawk.<\/p><\/div>\n
I LEARNED HOW TO DRIVE A MOTORCYCLE!<\/p>\n
It was my birthday present, from me to me. I needed to stay close to home this year, so what could I do that would satisfy my lust for adventure, my appetite for adreneline? I wanted to do Jim Russell’s 1-Day Grand Prix Master Program<\/a> at Infinion Racetrack in Sonoma. But it’s $2.5K. And you don’t get to keep the car. That ain’t right.<\/p>\n So instead I enrolled in the Bay Area Motorcycle Training<\/a> Program. I don’t have a bike, but have thought about it. I just thought it’d be super fun. Plus I’m tired of being always a passenger, never a driver. On motorcycles, anyhow. And I also thought it might be a good skill to have. Like driving a stick: You never know…<\/p>\n Great program. Great program. Not down with the 7:45 call time at CCSF at 7:45 on a Saturday & Sunday. I don’t think anyone was.<\/p>\n Welcome to the machine.<\/p><\/div>\n But the good news is you’re done at 2 (though they tell you 1). The instructors are awesome. You get lots of time on the bikes. And that is… about it. Get a lot of sleep beforehand, because even if you’re fit, it take strength just to operate the bike on the most basic level.<\/p>\n So that was the planned portion of my birthday celebration weekend. With that in mind, I knew better than to go nuts on Friday or Saturday night. So Friday was nice (and stupid early as well): Served breakfast at Glide Memorial<\/a> at 7am, followed by a luxurious lunch, then a matinee, “Waltz With Bashir”<\/a>. Not a real feel-gooder for one’s birthday, in hindsight. But I’d heard an interview with the filmmaker, Ari Folman, and was absolutely riveted with his story and his approach to making this a film. It’s stunning to watch. After that, I felt like a day at the spa. After that, what could be better than fondue? When was the last time you had fondue? And that was all about day 1 that I’ll put in writing. Besides riding a bike, Saturday saw the arrival of an unexpected houseguest. That happens a lot around here, for some reason. But I love my friends, so I don’t mind a bit. It just meant I got absolutely nothing done, and ended up going out that night. Not the best idea, but well worth it.<\/p>\n Sunday I had planned on having just a few friends over after the final day of riding. Though after Saturday night and another 6am wake-up call, I was not as excited about this plan as I originally was. But of course once my peeps showed up I was happy and it was grand.<\/p>\n What did I learn this birthday weekend? I’ll tell you:<\/p>\n 1. Getting up at 6am for any reason (when its dark out) 3 days in a row sucks, especially\u00a0 when its your birthday. I LEARNED HOW TO DRIVE A MOTORCYCLE! It was my birthday present, from me to me. I needed to stay close to home this year, so what could I do that would satisfy my lust for adventure, my appetite for adreneline? I wanted to do Jim Russell’s 1-Day Grand Prix Master Program at Infinion Racetrack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[105,24,106,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myadultland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n2. The Ooh La La is the best fondue choice at the Matterhorn<\/a>.
\n3. Motorcycles are really heavy!
\n4. Motorcycles are really fun!
\n5. I look really good on a motorcycle.
\n6. It’s alarming how much champagne and cheese and chocolate 5 gals can put away.
\n7. The peanut butter hot chocolate at Bittersweet Cafe<\/a> will give you an orgasm in your mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"