| Lovelock, Nevada to San Jose, California (home) | |
| Day's Route Overview: Now I'll soon be getting back into very familiar territory and then
home Planned 348 miles, actual 360 miles |
|
|
Starting out: Trip / Odometer / Time: 71.8 / 45,129 / 7:10 AM PDT |
|
The day started out very nice. The weather was good, although hazy due to the fires burning all over Nevada and California. |
|
| My first stop was in
Fernley, Nevada for breakfast.
As I was leaving, a fellow pulled up and we started chatting.
He is a deputy sheriff named Bob. He has a Harley, a '96 that
he enjoys. When I said I was from San Jose, he asked me if it
was true that San Jose has the highest child abduction rate in the
nation. I do not know if that is true. The reason he
asked is that he is on a 12 year long personal campaign to implement
a system he developed to try to combat child abductions. His
local authorities do not have the resources to implement such a
system. You do meet the most interesting people on a trip like this. |
|
Coming across the state line into California, it started getting cold. There were 3 or 4 times when it started raining lightly. I had to stop and put the liner into my jacket. The road does go through beautiful areas. The smell of the pines always reminds me of the holiday season. |
 |
The ride home through California was uneventful. It was good to be on familiar roads again. Before I left Bloomington, I stopped by the post office and bought a box to ship some stuff home. Dirty clothes and extra stuff from having over packed. You might have noticed in the photos through the days that going east I had more luggage piled on Lola that I had coming back west. With less weight and less wind resistance, the ride was noticeably improved on the way back home. I have to remember to pack lighter in the future. One thing did tend to amass were the t-shirts that I purchased at the various Harley-Davidson dealers that I stopped at. Each one is no big deal, but they do mount up to an appreciable bundle. I did include the first set in the box I shipped back home By a good stroke of planning, and if you believe that, I have a bridge I'd like to talk to you about, the box arrived on the same day that I did. I opened it eagerly and separated the dirty from the new and laid out the t-shirts to see my cache. 18 t-shirts. It will take me weeks and weeks to wear these each for the first time to racquetball.
|
|
I'm tired and sore in places where I didn't know I had places, but I'm also happy. All in all, this has been a terrific adventure. |
|
|
Done for the day: Trip / Odometer / Time: 2.2 / 45,489 / 2:31 PM |
|
|
ABC Letters: none Day's Totals: 360 miles, 7 hours 23 minutes |
|
Updated: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 06:03:12 PM