It was our intention to leave fairly early and I did set the alarm on my cell phone but the late night before called for a sleep-in day.  Oh well, no big deal since we are only going to Salinas, it’s a fairly short day anyway.  We were able to put our bikes inside the fence at our friend’s house so we didn’t have to unpack them and getting ready to go was as easy as putting yesterday’s dirty clothes somewhere and pulling out.  That happened around 0900 and we were once again southbound on I-5.

I called our hotel coordinator and requested a room in Salinas and she assured me she was on it.  In Redding I got a text message that said all the hotel rooms in Salinas were very expensive so Rich and I decided to just go down the Five until we got tired and if we didn’t get tired, we would just press on and be home that night.  At that point we’d been on the road for 250 miles and home was over 550 miles away.  So, that’s what I set my sights on, 550 more miles – over 800 miles for our last day.

My motorcycle did quit one more time, but by now I’m getting pretty good at getting it restarted and although there were a couple places it would have been VERY bad to have a dead motorcycle, it happened on open freeway and was no problem.

Rich’s bike is leaking pretty good out of the primary case and the drive belt is in pretty bad shape because the main drive gear bearing is loose so the gear is wobbling and slowly eating the belt.  Once again though, we aren’t  stopping.  About the time we got to Sacramento we’d pretty much decided that our destination was home & we were going to ride the bikes until we got there or they until they broke.  We did make it home – I got home at 2245 and Rich got home at 2315.  Official mileage varies between devices (GPS & Odometer) but we’ll say 7,300 miles and I’m sure it’s within 50 miles either side of that.

It was a great adventure and I’ll have some final thoughts when I post the rest of the pictures.  For now, I’m going to take a couple days and just relax.  Hope you enjoyed the ride.