Posts Tagged ‘Day 02’
June 14th, 2009 | 
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BS Ready to Roll
We got off to another good start. This part of Northern CA has some rolling hills with some nice long flats in the valleys. We started be 6:00 a.m. Dean texted me that our SPOT was tracking and we left Susanville CA and headed north on 395 where we were greeted with a few showers. They were brief and before we knew it we were hitting it fast (at least for me) for this 100 mile stretch to nowhere.
We didn’t have a set route today except to be near Seattle WA by the days end. At our first gas stop we decided the weather look better towards Bend Oregon (west) as oppose to heading north east towards Riley.
The first 100 miles was fast – now we were hitting some traffic (meaning we had to pass a few people) and before we knew it we were in Oregon and we were amongst trees and green smelling things – it was great. No rain and it was partly cloudy.
The only drawback as the day progressed was that Oregonians like to drive the speed limit – not 10 over the posted speed limit, but the speed limit. Like 99% of them, or at least this day… and the speed limit on a straight road was 55. So most of the day we admired the scenery and had fun passing the cars – it was like they were standing still……
Day 02 Profile of Ride
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