Mexican Hat, Utah – Seligman AZ – 285 miles (2185 trip mileage to date) Okay. So you know how sometimes it’s easy to get so caught up in the moment that you can’t imagine breaking the spell? That was the case today as we rode through Monument Valley and why we never stopped for pictures…
2013 Ride – Days 2 & 3 -Winslow – Las Vegas NM
Winslow, Arizona – Las Vegas, New Mexico (Forgot to check my mileage, roughly 390 miles today) I’m sitting in the third-floor window of our room at the historic Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas New Mexico, listening to a trumpet from the mariachi band echo across the plaza from the bar below and up to my…
Bye Bye Winslow!
Well… we’re back in SoCal now after a great, productive week in Winslow and we miss the Motor Palace already. Sadly, the tile guy wasn’t able to do the bathroom while we were there so we didn’t get to stay in the building, but we still made tons of progress. I’ll leave you with way…
Some Motor Palace History!
I always forget how long it takes to paint! The first couple of days, we focused on the bathroom. The sooner we finish it, the sooner we can stay in the building instead of renting a motel room. With a cup of coffee at the ready (in a Winslow correct Harvey House Cup!), we went…
Motor Palace 2013
Road trip time! Over the two years we’ve owned the Motor Palace, we’ve never stayed more than a couple of days at a time, and even though we have a great contractor, completing our “motel room” is taking forever because we’re not in Winslow to make choices.
Route 66: 20 Days on the Road and 5149 Miles!
SELIGMAN, AZ to ORANGE, CA – 407 Miles The hardest part of a 20-day motorcycle trip is day 21 and standing still. We’re home now, and I swear I feel this sort of emptiness, this longing to be back on the road. There’s just something about it. Thursday morning we said goodbye to our new…
Route 66: Gallup, NM to Seligman, AZ
Day 19 – 4742 Miles GALLUP, NM to SELIGMAN, AZ – 281 Miles I woke up bummed. Vacation was coming to an end and our final time on the road would be spent doing the familiar. The thrill of discovery would be gone. Boy! If only I’d known what lay ahead! We began the day…
Route 66: Santa Rosa, NM to Gallup, NM
Day 18 – 4461 Miles SANTA ROSA, NM to GALLUP, NM – 366 Miles I had an itch to see Santa Fe, all because of a childhood vision of a trip to visit my Aunt in New Mexico. She and her husband took us through tunnels of adobe buildings (or so it seemed to the…
Route 66: Elk City, OK to Santa Rosa, NM
Day 17 – 4095 Miles ELK CITY, OK to SANTA ROSA, NM – 372 Miles Brian and I both awoke salivating for New Mexico-styled grub… with lots of chiles, our culinary staple. So instead of taking the slow road through the rest of Oklahoma and Texas, we blasted out of Elk City, jumped on the…