Day 14
Miles driven 472 – Total Miles 5163 – Safford, AZ to El Paso, TX – 8 hours on the bike
I woke with the early morning sun again at about 5am as it was warm even up on the mountain in southern Arizona, and I knew the sun would heat things up fast. As I [...]

Day 13
Miles driven 455 – Total Miles 4691 – Mountainaire, AZ to Safford, AZ – 7 hours on the bike
I’ve only gone about 4500 miles so far and my back tire is almost gone!! I was expecting to get about 6000 miles out of it, but I guess it’s time to replace it before I [...]

Day 12
Miles driven 352 – Total Miles 4326 – Williams, AZ to Mountainaire, AZ – 5 hours on the bike
It was nice to sleep in a bed again. Soft and comfy, and I knew a shower awaited me when I got up. I sleep just fine on the ground, but it’s a sleep punctuated by [...]

Day 11
Miles driven 494 – Total Miles 3884 – Marcos, CO to Williams, AZ – 12 hours on the bike
All night I heard the plopping and bubbling of a stream nearby, but hadn’t known how close it was until the morning. There was a nice little stream about 20 feet from where I set up [...]

Day 10
Miles driven 423 – Total Miles 3390 – Escalante, UT to Marcos, CO – 10 hours on the bike
I’m getting into the habit of waking up with the sun or fairly close to it now. As I broke down my camp and loaded up my bike again, I was thinking how similar some of [...]

Day 9
Miles driven 423 – Total Miles 2968 – Furnace Creek, CA to Escalante, UT – 11 hours on the bike
I am in awe over the Zion experience. The whole lead up into Zion on through to the end is absolutely fantastic.
As you approach from the west side of the park you are driving through [...]

Advanced warning again… there are a lot of pictures on this post. As I took so many pictures, I wanted to separate this post on Death Valley out into it’s own post.
Don’t under-estimate the heat in Death Valley. It’s is amazingly hot in the summer. I wasn’t really prepared for how hot it was going [...]

Day 6
Miles driven 256 – Porterville, CA to Long Beach, CA – 6 hours on the bike
Another great night of camping. I spent the night in the Sequoia National Forest up on some mountain near Porterville, CA. I neither saw nor heard another human the whole time I was up there, just the birds in [...]

I’m just into beautiful sunny California about 5 miles and I get tagged by radar. The fine officer Randall was all business and was giving off attitude like you wouldn’t believe. Oh well, it takes all kinds to make this world go ’round, and now I get to test out how well the pre-paid legal [...]

About the time I hit Oregon the sun was staring to break through every now and again with shorter periods of rain/mist. I was due in Albany, OR around 6pm to give Christine a ride on the bike, so I just motored on down I-5 through Portland and Salem. I reached her house around 6:30 [...]