California road trip advice please!

[LongRanger_imp]

We'd leave SD at 7:00 AM and arrive at Furnace Creek for burgers by 12:30 PM, so that's about 5.5 hours to go 400 miles. We'd hang out in DV for a few hours, take a few scenic excursions, and then head back to SD that afternoon, taking our time and stopping for dinner along the way. Keep in mind you can make really good time in the Mojave if that's what you want to do. I rode a Saddlesore 1000 on similar roads (California and Nevada high desert) in 15.5 hours on my Kawasaki Concours (7.5 gal tank) twenty years ago. It was a fun day and not at all fatiguing, though I probably couldn't ride at that pace today. It's really nothing to boast about -- it was just the circle of friends I rode with at the time.

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