We started out this morning at around 0900 in order to hopefully avoid traffic in the Seattle area.\u00a0 John tried to get us to just go on without him since he wouldn’t be able to go as fast in a U-Haul as we could on the bikes but Rich and I were having none of that – all for one, and one for all.\u00a0 Seattle did have some traffic but it wasn’t bad – certainly not by Los Angeles standards.<\/p>\n
Everything was going along just fine until we got to Portland.\u00a0 We were going very slowly (about 10 mph) because of some construction that I never did see, and\u00a0 just about to go over the Marquam Bridge when my bike quit running.\u00a0 I knew it was electrical because the speedometer was stuck at 10 mph and the only way to make that happen is to turn the key off while the bike is moving.\u00a0 It was pretty easy to get over to the side of the road since it was down to two lanes & I got the bike restarted in less than a minute.\u00a0 That however was long enough on the side of the road for John to pass us in the U-Haul.\u00a0 I was concerned that he might try to turn off somewhere and come back so when I got my bike running we went as fast as we dared to catch up to him.\u00a0 We caught up with him within a mile or two and we made it to Salem with no more incidents.<\/p>\n
Salem is where we will continue south on I-5 and John will turn left and go to Sisters, OR.\u00a0 We got off the freeway at the exit for Sisters and found a Mexican food place for our last lunch together.\u00a0 The food was acceptable as were the margaritas.\u00a0 We wished John well and he was off to his daughter’s house while we were off to our friend’s house in Winston.\u00a0 I was hoping that my bike’s little problem was an anomaly and would never be seen again; that was not too be.\u00a0 Once more on the way to Winston it quit.\u00a0 This time, because we were at freeway speed, I got it restarted on the shoulder while I was still coasting along at 20 mph.\u00a0 Hmmm, now I’ve got to start thinking about what could be causing this\u2026.\u00a0 But we aren’t stopping, or slowing down.<\/p>\n
Our friends in Winston met us with a glass of Don Julio for me and a beer for Rich.\u00a0 We moved to the back patio where we enjoyed conversation, more adult beverages, and pizza.\u00a0 We should have called it a night much earlier than we did but hey, we haven’t seen these folks for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We started out this morning at around 0900 in order to hopefully avoid traffic in the Seattle area.\u00a0 John tried to get us to just go on without him since he wouldn’t be able to go as fast in a … Continue reading