Earache

After riding straight, flat desert for 2 days, it's a relief to be riding this rollercoaster....

yup. Full of runoff from snowmelt - it'll soon be dry though.`

This road leads us through Bridgeport, CA and up and over Sonora Pass....

Once up into the hills, the temps drop and we look back at the road we came in on....

Crossing into Cali - those mountains are on the border...

in northern california now with extremely slow internet that cant upload pics, gimme a day or so to resume

95F / 35C temps = warm enough for me! Room looked like someone puked on the walls.

Forgot thsi one. @Pedro mighjt like it. Stopped at a hole in the wall place for dinner last night. Debbie and Todd ordered some of their finest wine. It was severed in a full pint beer glass. Stay classy, Nevada!

Today, Sunday, we cross into California and on to San Francisco for the night, Kore as it happens...

545 miles later and we're in the oh so swanky Hawthorne Inn. Looks like 1970 in here with the orange walls and old furniture, but we were lucky to get a room. Place is sold out as there's not a lot else within 100 miles....

200 miles between fuel stations nearly caught me out - made it with 13 miles to spare..

The area overstates the whole ET thing in an effort to drum up some tourism

This went on for 500 miles today. Boring as shit but still kinda cool to be out here all alone....

I''d like to say we rode some cool curves amongst the lush greenery in the area, but this is the desert and we didn't. Just 100 mph straights all day....

Todd getting some alien love out in the middle of nowhere.

First part of Nevada looks kinda like the Badlands of South Dakota in miniature....

Todd wasn't impressed with Utah and vented his displeasure on their state sign...

Today we're out of Utah and into Nevada and the heat continues

Just how your body is set up. I've never had a cold, flu or any sickness in my entire life. Don't take particularly good care of myself, either. Just lucky genetics, I guess. But if you have shit genes, you're gonna have problems.

We're weird; we wear the same clothing no matter what while riding. Todd was the only one to wear some long underwear. I wear just a tee shirt under my jacket regardless of the weather. Brought along one pair of shorts and one pair of pants, 4 tee shirts and thats about it. Same with Dave. Although his wife brought a little more clothing. Will have to do a laundry day someplace along the trip after day 4.

I wondered myself, Poodle? Schnauzer? It was supposed to be chicken but I had my doubts. Only beer they had was the pictured Modelo - pissy stuff and it was kinda warm. Just what ya want after riding in 95F/35C temps all afternoon. But Utah had some weird liquor laws and I was lucky to get a beer at all.

That's Dave's bike - have ridden with Dave for 35 years and have been many places with him. He's riding this trip with his wife Debbie as pillion. No issues with either bike other than Dave's is kinda lardy with panniers, top b ox and tons of shit on it. Hard to travel light when you have a passenger.

Close! This will b e 7 days an d 4,200 miles or so. Did 500 miles yesterday and will be about 600 today. Then we'll have lower mileage days before heading back east. Should be fun!

7 days this trip. All the time off from work that Todd and my other buddy, Dave, could get from work.

Bikes are asleep and so are we. Headed to Nevada tomorrow and will post more piccies as they happen....