Ride across the USA

[Django]

Well, our intrepid traveler Django had the unfortunate mispleasure of stopping in Baker, CA, today, home to the "world's tallest thermometer." I've seen 118F on that thing. It ain't pretty.

Well, it was only 90 °F this morning....at 8 am.

Baker is an ugly place, not worth to stop, other you need some internet access and a coffee. Even that failed in the first restaurant, but the found internet access at that Crazy Greek.

Needles was extremely hot, though have no exact values. Then in Oatman it was okay. However I felt all time comfortable, my heat strategy (got from iron butt forum) works well: close vents of jacket in front, open back vent of jacket, wear long functional underwear and poor water down the neck and chest under the jacket. The evaporation produces a very pleasant cooling. Watering the cushion in the helmet helps a lot with the head.

I wasted some time in Kingman to find an internet hot spot, failed on that. But the payoff was, that I had a very pleasant ride in the evening hours along 66 from Kingman to William. Nice temperatures, a kindly breeze and NO traffic at all. And this evening I found a very fair motel room in the middle of Williams. Needed a room to have some reliable internet access for my communication and to load up the battery of all my devices. Despite I use a power pack very successfully, after a couple of days I run low of energy. The power pack I do upload during the ride under the seat. But for planning on the notebook and my cell phone, I end up to use more energy than I reload.

@Frulk: if we ride gently, I guess those 130 miles won't hurt any more. However, this Motorcycle Desert Doctor looks really cool!

At least we have the tires already and only need some help, to mount them on the rim, which I can't do myself.

Btw. even Formula One teams do miscalculation on the tire stratey.