Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Trip Pics 7 - Oregon - last day

The final tally of the GPS: 3547 miles.
Average speed 56 mph (including stop and go traffic and those oh-so-fun 2nd gear twisties).
Top speed of 113. I wasn't really trying to max out the bike, but here is a picture of the road where I did it, loooong and straight. Not too thrilling. The GPS had been reading a top speed of 111 MPH from back when I was riding with Aaron. I just felt an urge to break it. I did manage to slalom the dotted line for awhile to break up the monotony. That's always fun.
Total moving travel time 62:40 give or take a few.
There's nothing like winding out your top gear to get the day started. Made short work of this boring road first thing in the morning in central Oregon.
The last camp site of the trip. Some ORV area on BLM land that seemed to sprawl over a very large chunk of real estate. There were trails everywhere but nobody around except giant mounds of red ants. They left me alone but it still gave me the willies. For the first time since I started this odyssey it was chilly that night. I actually had to get in my sleeping bag.

Didn't take too many pictures this day, mostly because I was on home turf high tailing it through the high desert. Besides, there really isn't anything to see there worth taking a picture. Also, I was ready to be done for now and be home and see my wife and I really, really, really wanted to TAKE A SHOWER. I was due back by 5:00 to go to a school function with my wife. Made it at 3:00 with just 15 miles worth of gas left in the tank, that's less than a 1/2 gallon. If I lived on the other side of town I would have had to stop. The idiot light came on just outside of town and I said 'I'll be damned if I'm gonna stop now, my ass has been sore for the last 200 miles, I'm cranky and stinky and I'm gonna make it damn it!' When I got home she wouldn't come near me cuz I was a little fragrant from baking in the sun for days and days. Probly didn't help that I had run out of socks a couple days before that.

1 comment:

Emily said...

WOW! Just wow.... That sounds like one hell of a trip! I would love to do that sort of thing, only in my jeep. I know, not the same as on a bike, but i'm more of a quiet, slow adventurer. I mean, I love going 100mph, and I love having only a vague plan, I just like having my jeep like a turtle shell to hide in. =) Fantastic photos!