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…
Day 13 – 2782 Miles MILWAUKEE, WI to PONTIAC, IL – 207 Miles I love my motorcycle. And I was SO happy to get back in the saddle! Even with the city traffic. While cruising an L.A.-like ten mile-per-hour freeway crush through Chicago, I got caught doing something silly (sillier than kissin my sickle). Whenever…
Day 8 – 2509 Miles from Home SPRINGFIELD, IL – ??, IL – 275 Miles I didn’t get my blog written last night because… I’ve seen the light at the end of the Route 66 tunnel! And well… We had some issues in Chicago. But I’ll get to that in a bit. The final leg…
Day 7 – 2234 Miles from Home CUBA, MO to SPRINGFIELD, IL – 251 Miles Nothing like putting on damp jeans, boots, and gloves and climbing on the bike on a cool morning! Brrrr!!! But I’m telling you, it was … What adjective haven’t I used? Amazing? Fantastic? Spectacular? The Illinois countryside defies description. And…
Day 6 – 1983 Miles from Home CARTHAGE, MO to CUBA, MO – 239 Miles What a bizarre day. I mean, no individual event stood out as bizarre… Simply the culmination of the day’s events–a day of countless U-turns and backtracking to find the elusive Mother Road. Yes, we could have hopped on the Interstate…
Day 5 – 1744 Miles from Home EDMOND, OK to CARTHAGE, MO – 283 Miles Nope. We’re not in Kansas anymore! In fact, I don’t think we spent more than five minutes in Kansas. We hit three states on day 5, so let’s mosey on back to Oklahoma and fill you in! Man! What a…
Day 4 – 1461 Miles from Home TUCUMCARI, NM to EDMOND, OK – 427 Miles Talk about hellacious headwinds!! But first… Back to the beginning of the day and the Blue Swallow… I’ve gotta tell ya… Kevin (owner of the Blue Swallow Motel) didn’t lie. When showing us the room he’d extolled the virtues of…
Day 3 – 1034 Miles from Home GALLUP, NM to TUCUMCARI, NM – 335 Miles After a lovely night’s stay in the Jane Wyman room at the El Rancho, we hopped on the 40 and got off a short bit later on Continental Divide to get to Route 66. For the most part, the Mother…
Day 2 – 699.6 Miles from Home KINGMAN, AZ to GALLUP, NM – 368 Miles Over the last couple of years since buying the Motor Palace, we’ve made the trek between Orange and Winslow about a bazillion times and have explored every fragment of the Mother Road–and I mean literal FRAGMENTS! So this time, since…