McCall Idaho

[MendoDave]

Nice looking trip Dave.

Thanks it been nice so far except for that business with the mud slide and subsequently loosing one of us down in Boise.

They are still clearing the mud off the road. It's open to one way traffic.

Now the beer in the first shot was a Zamboni Brown, about 5.5   A Zamboni is one of those machines that shaves the ice smooth on a hockey rink.

This one is called Smoked Scotch. It's a 7.2 so after this Im going back to the Condo.

[ducpainter]

Tiny two beers.

[MendoDave]

I'm going to run a hose from this big brass keg over to the condo and sip off of it tonight.

[ducpainter]

I'm going to run a hose from this big brass keg over to the condo and sip off of it tonight.

[MendoDave]

I was putting my jacket on and one of the locals bought me a "Loud Boy Porter"

[MendoDave]

I headed out of McCall this morning during the fresh morning weather. Took some time to take some photos of the lake and the boats down town before riding on out of there.







After about an hour of riding past farms and streams and forests an such the turnoff to Hells canyon and the snake river presented its self.

It was actually twisty for a few miles going down into the canyon. My tires needed that.



Then as I got in to John Day many hours later I finally discovered where the duke Boys lived.



It looked good from the back too, almost like new, or maybe it did look new.

[MendoDave]

Shortly after leaving John Day Oregon a state trooper going the other way almost decided to turn around and give me a ticket, but he settled for flickering his lights at me instead. Then I was seeing cops in my rear view all the way home.

Just before Dusk I pulled over here on this lonely stretch of U.S. 395



Wagon tire is 30 miles back that way.



Lake view is 60 miles ahead.



It is very very quiet out here. No cars for several minutes at a time, just the wind.

By the time I got to Lakeview it was just about dark. Rather than getting a motel I just pressed on the last 100 miles for home. All the lights were on and I got greeted by the wife and the dogs. The trip was something like 1,700 miles all together. The bike is filthy and I see that it needs more work. The rear tire is toast now as well. It looks like I got a whole summer of riding in in just over a week. I'm going to have to do another trip like that next summer.