Woke up this morning cold, not sure how cold it got last night, but there’s condensation on the tent and a thick layer of frost on the bike and picnic table.
Packing seems to move quickly, we both have our routines, its almost like a system now. And the bags seem to get more compact. Either we are leaving things behind at each campsite or we can really pack.
Today was one of the first days that we used the charger. We have a wire tap off the battery to a cigarette lighter accessory. Basically we can charge all of our stuff on the road. Its cool, especially if our com unit runs out of juice, we can just plug it in and charge it up. The down side is when it rains, we have to pull over right away or it will fry the recharging system.
We make good time on the road, riding through a giant pine forest. We rise up to 5900 ft, snow fills in the ditches. From what we can gather from locals, we missed the snow fall by a day and a thunderstorm was expected last night but never came. Lucky, which reminds me, we are in a Travel Lodge watching TV and all over the news is the tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, on day 5 we traveled just below on interstate 44.
The windy road is awesome! We will ride up this amazing mountain (Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA), on hwy 89. The ride up is incredible, although most of the climbing was done yesterday. We begin heading back down and the speed limit is 65 mph (112kmph) and theres a turn right, then a turn left. A corner comes up with a 35mph sign on it. We gear down and take it at a respectable speed. The next corner almost immediately after is 25 mph then another at 30 and another at 25mph. A straight stretch comes up and we are back at 65mph and repeat. we fly keeping the pace.
~devin
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