And Then There Were Three

The date shake late in the afternoon covered my evening meal requirement. A couple of the boys went to Shoshone for a burger. I blew up my air mattress with my air pump (DR350's exhaust). Any small necked bottle (like a gas additive) will do as an adapter. If 'pump up' is started with a cold bike no melting follows.

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Evening was passed with a dip in the 95 degree pool and by solving world problems....
In the morning as we went thru Shoshone we noted the Sheriff station. Love a small town.

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Shoshone also has a Cafe/bar and motel as well as a gas station and Post office.

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We'd be in Fredonia that evening posed to see the North Rim of the Grand Canyon the next day.............I'd never been there. I'd been seeing Toroweap on maps for years. This would be the year that the mystery destination would be disclosed.

We left Shoshone at about 9am heading east toward Pahrump. We figured to have breakfast there. It's only about 30 miles and we'd get some gas for good measure.

We hit the Main street in Pahrump and turned toward Vegas. I figured to find food and gas out that way. Soon we were approaching the outskirts of town without any satifaction.

One of us found a bakery where we stopped for a confab. We decided we would make do with a muffin and Nip told us there was gas in 40 miles. We all had enough to get there so we stuffed down a muffin with coffee and hit the road for Vegas.
...Outside the Bakery...the first picture of Nip, Doug on the right.  Nip is a special guy.  He was a cartoonist for Disney and a lot of others way back when.  What he can conjure up out of his imagination wild.  Doug, on his right, is an engineer and has been my friend since grade school when his family moved to town from Seattle.  That same year my family moved there from Ohio.

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Arnold had had a low battery yesterday at Chaparral. He check his battery terminals, and tightened them. The bike started then so he figured all was well, but this morning his battery was acting up again so he decided to pull out of the trip.....and Doug decided to go with him to make sure he got back to Los Angeles ok. That knocked us back to 3 riders.  We were sorry to not have them with us.