Saturday, June 7, 2008

Day 2 - To Ellensburg, WA

Jo in Klamath Falls
Suzanne fueling up in Washington
Michael loading up to leave Klamath Falls
Clark and Kathy pluggin in!
View of the mountains.





We left Klamath Falls at 8 a.m. to sunny skies and COLD temps. Everyone bundled up...even Larry.

We rode Hwy 97 north. We started to go to Crater Lake but the north entrance was closed due to weather. We opted not to go in becaue it would have added another 100 miles to our day.

As we neared the Columbia River the wind turned into an absolute monster. Choose a state with awful wind conditions and put them all into one 200 mile stretch of road and that is what we experienced.

As we got further into Washington the wind abated - until we neared Ellensburg.

We started that day at 42 degrees, it got up to 74 degrees and dropped back down to the mid-50s be day's end.

A miserable day because of the wind, but otherwise a safe ride in some very lovely country. Approximately 440 miles.

2 comments:

Gary Covert said...

Like the pictures Suzanne and you all look great. Thanks for taking the time to do this blog.

Have some wonderful riding today.
Gary

Frank K said...

Looking good. Who has the maroon Wing? Sort of looks like Larry's back end but not sure. How could he ever get ride of the yellow bike!!
Frank K