Saturday, November 06, 2021
On the road south
We are heading to Tucson for one last winter. So far the traveling has been quite fine. No rain. Kit forgot his raincoat so had to buy one at BiMart in Baker City so we are prepared if it does rain.
Left Friday morning and did over 400 miles--a lot for us. All freeway driving. Hwy 84 is not as bad as I5 but after you leave the Columbia gorge it does get a bit boring. Stopped last night in Baker City. Had a great motel (Quality Inn) where we could park just outside our door and wheel the bikes in--lots of room. Fitting bikes into a hotel room always a challenge.
Today (Saturday) we only did 350 miles which was plenty. When you travel through the wastelands of Nevada there are only so many choices of places to stay. We chose Wells (a non-place on the crossroads of Hwy 93 and I 80. We've stayed at this Hampton Inn before and they let us store our bikes in a downstairs meeting room. No gourmet dining in this place though. The taco trucks were closed so we chose the casino. Once you get past the smoke the food is quite good. We would like to have made Ely but it's still 2 hours away. So we will head to Henderson tomorrow. All back roads with sparse traffic until we get to Vegas.
We've been playing hop and jump time zones today. Pacific to Mountain and back to Pacific in Nevada. Tomorrow is the end of DST so we fall back--which we will ignore. Arizona is in Mountain time but doesn't do DST so we end up keeping our clocks on whatever time it was when we left home. ?
Carol Harma--from my iPad
Left Friday morning and did over 400 miles--a lot for us. All freeway driving. Hwy 84 is not as bad as I5 but after you leave the Columbia gorge it does get a bit boring. Stopped last night in Baker City. Had a great motel (Quality Inn) where we could park just outside our door and wheel the bikes in--lots of room. Fitting bikes into a hotel room always a challenge.
Today (Saturday) we only did 350 miles which was plenty. When you travel through the wastelands of Nevada there are only so many choices of places to stay. We chose Wells (a non-place on the crossroads of Hwy 93 and I 80. We've stayed at this Hampton Inn before and they let us store our bikes in a downstairs meeting room. No gourmet dining in this place though. The taco trucks were closed so we chose the casino. Once you get past the smoke the food is quite good. We would like to have made Ely but it's still 2 hours away. So we will head to Henderson tomorrow. All back roads with sparse traffic until we get to Vegas.
We've been playing hop and jump time zones today. Pacific to Mountain and back to Pacific in Nevada. Tomorrow is the end of DST so we fall back--which we will ignore. Arizona is in Mountain time but doesn't do DST so we end up keeping our clocks on whatever time it was when we left home. ?
Carol Harma--from my iPad
# posted by Carol Harma @ 8:05 PM 
