{"id":113,"date":"2018-07-14T02:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T02:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2022-12-05T08:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:04:25","slug":"mike-huber-the-real-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/14\/mike-huber-the-real-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huber: The real deal…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my last trip through Baja while riding with a dozen guys on RX3s, we stopped for fuel in Catavina while headed south. That\u2019s on the long stretch between El Rosario and Guerrero Negro, where the distance between Pemex stations is over 200 miles. Catavina is a tiny town in a beautiful boulder field (in fact, it\u2019s the area depicted in the lead photo on the ExhaustNotes Baja page<\/a>). The locals sell fuel out of gas cans in Catavina, and on a motorcycle, you have to stop here to top off. \u00a0The boulder fields through this region are dramatic, almost other-worldly.\u00a0 You can get a bit of a feel for the area from this photo…<\/p>\n

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Baja’s Catavina boulder fields.\u00a0 This is some of the most dramatic scenery on the planet!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anyway, we had stopped for fuel in Catavina when I noticed a guy on an adventure bike amongst our guys.\u00a0 What grabbed my attention is that I didn’t recognize him.\u00a0 It felt weird, because this was our second day on the road, and I thought I was losing it. Usually by the middle of the first day on these group rides I know everybody who\u2019s riding with us.\u00a0 Incidentally, if you want to know what it\u2019s like organizing one of those tours, there\u2019s a story on that topic appearing in ADVMoto<\/em> this week (you can read it here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Mike’s BMW topcase. All the way!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anyway, I looked at this new guy and then I realized his bike wasn\u2019t an RX3; it was a BMW GS1200. I was just about to razz him a bit about that, and then I saw the jump wings on his bike\u2019s top case. \u00a0 You don’t get US Army jump wings out of a Cracker Jack box, so I knew right away this guy was not going to be your typical adventure rider. \u00a0 No one who rides a motorcycle in Baja is a “typical” anything, but I knew this gentleman was going to be something special.<\/p>\n

I asked the guy if he was a paratrooper, the answer was yes, and over the next roughly thousand Baja miles I got to knew Mike Huber well. He rode with us for several days and all of us thoroughly enjoyed his company. As it turns out, Mike is not your everyday former US Army paratrooper (as if there ever could be such a thing); he’s a serious rider with a very cool lifestyle (more on that in a second).<\/p>\n

Mike and I became good friends, and when he was in town a couple of weeks ago, Sue and I met him for lunch at La Casita Mexicana<\/a> in Bell (just south of LA).\u00a0 If you’ve never dined there, trust me on this, you need to make the trip.\u00a0 It’s an award-winning restaurant with a unique cuisine that I learned about from Steve and Maureen at CSC, and to be blunt, it’s the finest Mexican food I’ve ever had.\u00a0 But I digress…back to Mike…<\/p>\n

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Lunch with Mike at La Casita Mexicana.\u00a0 Those enchiladas sure look good!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mike is anything but a stereotypical guy. \u00a0 Nope, he’s\u00a0the real deal.\u00a0 Mike’s has been living on his motorcycle and traveling North America (and a bit of Central America) for the last year, and he just published a story about his lifestyle in Intravel Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a great read, and you can see it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well done, Mike!\u00a0 Ride safe and keep us posted on your travels!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my last trip through Baja while riding with a dozen guys on RX3s, we stopped for fuel in Catavina while headed south. That\u2019s on the long stretch between El Rosario and Guerrero Negro, where the distance between Pemex stations is over 200 miles. Catavina is a tiny town in a beautiful boulder field (in … Continue reading “Mike Huber: The real deal…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,4,8,6,7],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baja","tag-bmw-gs1200","tag-csc-rx3","tag-living-off-your-motorcycle","tag-motorcycle-mexico","tag-us-army-paratrooper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}