{"id":4496,"date":"2010-09-30T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2010-09-30T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:00:25","slug":"my-own-personal-gypsy-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4496","title":{"rendered":"My Own Personal Gypsy Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As you know, I’ve been working on my motorcycle<\/a> (thanks, Ed!).\u00a0 All the fixing, adjusting, lubricating, and tweaking has been in preparation for a long solo ride through Arizona, Nevada, and California.<\/p>\n

Launch date is just a few days away, and my concerns have shifted from maintenance to packing.\u00a0 What to bring, and how much?\u00a0 Well, that’s easy . . . whatever I can stuff into the available space!\u00a0 I really shouldn’t stress about it.\u00a0 I’ll be staying with the kids in Las Vegas and with friends in California; AFAIK they all have washing machines.<\/p>\n

The original plan was to cross into California from Beatty, Nevada, about 100 miles north of Las Vegas.\u00a0 I had hoped to spend the first night with friends in Mammoth Mountain, then ride up 395 on the east side of the Sierras to South Lake Tahoe and down 50 to Sacramento.\u00a0 This plan was undone by circumstance and fear . . . the circumstance being my friends are on vacation in Europe; the fear being early snow in the mountains, a distinct possibility.\u00a0 So I’m entering California the same way I’d originally planned to leave it, by the southern route: I-15 between Las Vegas and Los Angeles.\u00a0 This means two nights with my Long Beach friends Terry and Judy, but that’s more than okay, because I haven’t seen them for a long time (whether it’s okay with them remains to be seen).<\/p>\n

Here’s the itinerary:<\/p>\n