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Sat was a long crazy, rainy, sunny, windy day!~400 miles but i'm almost back on track from not being able to get across rt 120....
Left bakersfield going torwards Las Vegas... was not really sure how far i would get, but i ended up in Alamo NV (parts of the ride were, well... unsettling!..... rain on and off, huge storm looming on the horizon - causing my brother scott and kids to get SNOWED out of a hike in Great Basin Park in norther NV)...
the first hour of the days ride was the best... the last hour was the worst! you start thinking, ok.. it is late in the day, i'm tired.... sun will be setting soon... where the HECK am i? where is that next town? and how come i have not seen another car in WAY too long?!?!
what if i get a flat here and now? what if something else (worse) happens... will there be enough sunlight to reslove the problem....
long hours on the road make you wonder about such things!!!
and on this day.... while riding through the rain towards an unknown hotel, in an unknown town, with sun light soon to fade... well, i was THRILLED to put my head on a pillow that night!
anyway... the ride from L. Vegas to Alamo, NV was long, cold, windy, rainy and i was not 100% certain there was a place to stay once i got there!
anyway... all was well... (thanks to the Mrs at home running logistics!)
------- pics (oh, i have figured out that the pics get uploaded in revser order - perhaps some of you already figured that out!! ----
- heading towards some foot hills (had to put on rain gear!); yup, those are rain clouds!
- erin, you like wind turbines!!!!
- stopped in a ghost town near barstow (not really ghosty! more like TOURIST TRAP!)
- William, you like rocks? how did these get all bent up? (i grabbed a little one for ya!)
- looking towards L. Vegas (out skirts).... not staying here, need to power on ahead
- this is when i started questioning the wisdom of heading further north towards Alamo* (those dark clouds were in MY future! and apparently in SCOTT'S PAST); speaking of "past"... scott and i passed each other, him heading south, me north, along some lonely highway on sat... he saw me.... well, who could MISS ME (and my color pattern! Blue, Red, Yellow - i wonder what countries flag is b,r,y?); * i could have just headed north east for bryce, UT... but scott and i had a "plan" and i was NOT going to let him down! even if it was the DEATH of me! (see... scott... i take my commitments VERY seriously!)
- all settled in at my hotel that DID exist and that the MRS!!! FOUND!!! thanx jen.... otherwise i would have been sleeping by the side of the road (in the rain!); sure... i would have survived, but i would not have had a very restful sleep! i hear that there are DINGOS out there!
and the next morning we (me, ichy, his new friend "splatter" and the Toxic Avenger; yes my split personallity has now bifurcated into multiple forms!) were able to celebrate us claiming NV on our map!
---- couple vids 
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