| Quality Inn offers free "cooked to order"
breakfast from a menu of about 6 choices. Up, breakfasted, and out of the room at 7:50 Refueled Circle-K Heading toward Bakersfield a little over 125 miles West on Highway-58 |
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| A rest area in the desert, leg stretch time. This is the area that made Ronald Reagan famous... Time: 8:51-8:55, Trip: 45.4 |
 
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| Little town of
Tehachapi. A good opportunity for
a leg stretch. Not that much to do in Tehachapi but watching the train activities. Time: 9:35, Trip: 91.9 |
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| Bakersfield at last. First find a county building
in front of which I can get a photo for Kern County. Looks like a nice enough little town. Time: 10:25, Trip 133.0 Found the Bakersfield Harley-Davidson, got a shirt. Time: 10:32-10:47, Trip: 133.5 |
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| Gassed up at an A-One Service Center in
Bakersfield Time: 12:51, Trip 134.5, Price: $2.419, Gal: 3.377, Cost $8.15 |
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| And now, one of my least favorite highways, 99. Poor pavement, always seems hot, pot holes, crowded.... Robert S. Raine rest stop, Time: 11:49, Trip: 55.9 I was just getting ready to leave when a couple on two bikes |
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Visalia Harley-Davidson. Missed this guy
last year when I was down in this area. If you miss the turn-off to get here, the first opportunity for a u-turn is about 10 miles up 99. Got two shirts, one was half off -- the price, not the coverage. Time: 12:32-12:50, Trip 74.4 |
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| Lunch in
Fresnoat the Jensen Avenue
In-N-Out Burger. M-m-m good. Time: 1:14-1:35, Trip 106.3 |
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| Spent a lot of time riding around beautiful downtown
Fresno Looking for a building with a county name sign on it that I could park close enough for a photo including my bike. The sun is extremely hot, I'm sweating like a horse, it's 90 degrees. Finally found the Fresno County Federal Credit Union. Time: 2:10, Trip 118.5 |
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| Just North of Fresno, I turn West on Highway 152. I'm going to need gas soon, surely there will be a station soon. 152 is not the most heavily populated area of the world. I was really getting nervous, tank was running pretty low. Finally, on Rt-33, Dos Palos Chevron and none too soon I was down to my last two-tenths of a gallon. |
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| Time: 3:21, Trip: 176.5, Odometer: 24,886,
Price: $2.679, Gal: 4.795, Cost: $12.85 This is the last tank I need to get the rest of the way home. |
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| On 152, in
Los Banos, is another HD dealer. Of course, I stop and get a shirt. Time: 3:52-4:05, Trip 13.5 |
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| Upon arrival home, I find that some vandals had
perpetrated their mischief in my front yard! It looks like the Harley will not be
the only air-cooled |
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| Home! Time: 5:33, Trip: 96.9, Odometer: 24,983 | |||||||
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Progress for the day:
470 miles in about 9 hours, 43 Minutes |
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