June 21st, First day of summer! First day of Phase 2! We are rolling!

After leaving the house I met up Rick at Big Steve’s work to have a final goodbye at Grand Prix with Steve, as it will be the last time as Steve and his wife will be on a new adventure and will be moved to TN by the time we return. It is with a heavy heart to think of not seeing him and BS with BS on a weekly basis, it will now just be on different terms. Looking forward to their new adventure in life!

Rick over the last couple of weeks has repaired his clutch issue, along with the whining noise coming from his bike and a loose front value stem issue. The whining noise turned out to be his fuel pump, which he replaced. So he is good to go! I switched bikes for this phase to my BMW to give it a workout with fresh tires. We both will have some shaking out to do as we start off. New GPS for me, different planning method for this leg, along with a different bike.

We got rolling at 10:00 am with the goal of St. George UT. Nothing exciting about this leg, it is typical for us, at least the first 250 miles to Las Vegas. Freeway droning with racing cars and trucks and yahoo drivers that never leave the left lane. We did the standard stops: Barstow CA, Stateline NV, Mesquite NV and then St. George UT – about 400 miles. Las Vegas, typical I-15 STILL under some kind of construction for the last 30 years I’ve been riding through here… We arrived in St. George at 5:00 pm (loosing and hour – it was 4pm for us) at a familiar hotel and ate at a familiar place. Some habits die hard, but why ruin a good thing?

Tomorrow we get off the highway, taking the back roads again, and will start making our way to our #2 ride on our list of 20 – in the Ozarks!

Todays ride video