9/5 – Mesquite Dunes in Moonlight
Other activities included a stop by Badwater Basin (120 F), and poking around ghost towns Rhyolite and Ballarat. If it had been another time of year, I would have preferred to take the scooter. But for right now, AC in the car is totally alright. Also, I can’t listen...
9/4 – No Bugs At All
I’m used to being devoured by insects when doing anything camping related out in the open, but tonight was so still Tim and I fell asleep with the van open. It’s nice and cool at altitude. My shampoo bottle popped from air pressure. Lots of scenery today, including a...
9/3 – Natural Playground
For this leg of the journey, I’ve joined up with Tim (the Giraffe). Sadly, I opted to leave the scooter at his friend’s home – the front end wobble is tiring me out, it’s first on the list of things to look at once I reach the Bay Area....
9/2 – My helmet smells like…BBQ?
161 miles. I think it was from smoke from the campfire in Leggett, but I couldn’t tell the day before because everything smelled like smoke. Or it could be that it felt like I was about to burst into flames, like any of the dry shrubbery I rode through...
9/1 – Riding Buddy for a Day
239 miles. I struck up a conversation with Joel from the campground in Leggett, and it turns out we’re going the same way at least part of the time. California Route 1 is absolutely breathtaking. Somewhere before Woodland, CA I hit the highest temperature I’ve seen on my dash:...