NY 2 SF Day 6

Take me out to the ball park...

Holy COW

On road service

Lunch with friends,thanks for taking care of me G & G

Chicago street view

Help me....

Well after the 1300 miles in 23 hours, it was rest day and what a better city than Chicago.
My nice friends Gina & Gene had let me crash at there home and were nice enough to show me around, got some lunch had a few drinks and chilled. Also had a chance to clean the bike and check it all over.
Here are some photos
Cheers PB

NY 2 SF Day 4

Left Montrose, my cute little over priced hotel with bad coffee and even worse pillows. Why can't hotels, out side of the Ritz had good pillows, help me here. On the way out went to Black canyon. WOW a 16 degree ride down to the bottom. Then up to the Rockies at Monach pass I got to 11312 feet and it was 36 degrees. Dam cold, never thought I would be have to fart in my pant, but it kept me warm. And I have no heated grips on my bike.. Meet some nice people they hold me to go to Dillion brew and stay the night, turns out to be a mall WTF. Drove through some nice roads, through Gunnison on the 285 to the 24. Drove through Brecken ridge, which was nice, and I am sure very nice in the full on winter, but took me a disney land a bit. Even though it was beautiful, there was nothing else to do, so I git on the 50 to Denver. The last 2 hours it rained and it was not fun. Found the 25 north and another over priced hotel. Dried off my clothes found a nice man John to be my withness for my butt burner a off to sleep.
Cheers PB

NY 2 SF Day 3

WTF

I was running this storm

OK people here is the WTF of the trip. And I must say the cop in Coptar AKA Utar was cool about it. I got pulled over doing 75 in a 50 zone. YES 50 WTF I can run faster and it is easy to dodge to bugs hitting your visor at 50 mph (that is no contest for the bugs). But here is my big WTF. You can not do 10mph over the speed limit put you can spread your brains down the road when you crash cause there is no helmet laws. Again WTF. And they call us crazy in California. Anyway the cop only wrote me up for doing 60mph so I did not need to go to court. Back to Utah it is beautiful Hey 24 and 95 were great and parts of it remind me of Australia.91 east in Moab was windy the rocks are rock if you were into rock climbing. Barry told me to go to Moab and when I got there again I was WTF, it was a run town red neck town. Got gas and put it behind me, but the ride out of Moab was azaming. So stunning, everyone should go there one. Got out of Coptar heading to Colorado. Pushed on to Delta and then to Montrose. On the way to Montrose I was riding right into a strom, it rained heavy and there was lighting. I guess no camping tonite. I was over budget on hotels already.
Question... hope someone can help. For all the farms I saw why do they all look like junk yards with a house in the middle. Can't they clean there front yards up a little and get rid of the 6 old rusting cars ??? Help me understand people.
Cheers PB

Where it all started...

Always wanted to ride for team Yamaha...
Let me know how old you think I was

NY 2 SF Day 2

My perfect camp site

Drying out boots

Friends from NY going to SF

WOW this is a lot of Deer

Cheap real estate

First sign of snow

New friends

Day 2.... Still no good coffee in these casino towns. Got on Hwy 21 heading to Denver. One of the smallest and cutest towns I hit was Baker NV. Once I was leaving NV it took me a while but all of a sudden there were no flashing neon lights. Oh yes... I am not in Las Vegas NV any more. Hit rain one the way to Beaver and all I could smell riding though Utah or as I prefer to call it "Coptar",so many police in Utah,back to the smell was fertilizer that they put on the crops. Barry had told me to ride Highway 14 to 89 and then 12 and even though it was riding I was glad I did it. Going up though the 14 was amazing. The start of Bryce canyon was breath taking. I was going to try and get to Moab, but it was getting late. I found the best free camp site, under a hugh red cliff and right on a river bed. I went to sleep to the sound of the river and woke up to the sound of rain on the tent.
Utah is beautiful and worth seeing.
Cheers PB