Pre Red Rock mtns along the way....
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I'd like to walk up every one of those canyons....wishful thinking...
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I've skipped a few pictures, but I can't pass up this one.
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Here are the red rock of the state park. If you're in Vegas go west out Charleston Blvd to see the State Park. It's only 6 or 8 miles out there and it's worth it.
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We wanted to avoid Downtown Vegas and as we drove toward town on Charleston Blvd there is a new belt Fwy that circles the town on the northwest side. We took it to North Las Vegas where we would look up Scott Corsaro who works at a Dyno shop at the Las Vegas Speedway. I'd never been to the speedway either.
My GPS didn't know the beltway had been completed so it routed us thru some of North Las Vegas that we didn't need to see. But we eventually got to the Dyno shop.
I had no idea that the speedway was such a complex of speed related commercialism. On the way to the Dyno address we passed Shelby's museum and shop. Hummmm....
I met Scott thru Scott's brother back when I was still working. The Corsaro brothers are two of the young men that give me faith that the world is in good hands for the future.
We approach the shop...
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Inside Scott gives us a tour...scott's in the foreground. :evil
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These guys work on anything. Makes me realize how little I know about bikes. Here a Harley complete with oil drip pan
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We had quite a tour at Scott's and Nip got a quote on changing his Harley over to tapered roller bearings and a gear cam drive. I think I got that right.
So after the Dyno shop we decided to go see Shelby's museum. I like cars. Here's Mike out front
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Inside we saw this retro car.
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Here's the motor like is in that car. Imagine a motor with it's own shock absorbers. Scheesh!
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This little memento is worth big bucks as well.
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Believe me we could fill this report with Shelby stuff, but we had to get on the road. We headed north on I-15 to the Valley of Fire road and took it out toward Lake Mead and the Valley of Fire State park.
More great scenery coming up....dropping down into the park.
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There's 30 miles of Red Rocks, hieroglyphs and arches..here are a few photos.
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They built a stairway up to the glyphs
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Might be petroglyphs I can't keep them straight.
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Bikes from the stairs
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After the Valley of Fire we high tailed it back to I-15...here we approach The Virgin River Gorge north of Mesquite Nevada
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The Virgin River Gorge is as good as it gets....we see a lot of 'as good as it gets' in the next couple of weeks.
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That's Nip and Mike back there as we near the end of the gorge.
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A view of the river as we exit the gorge.
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We've screwed around getting to Fredonia in a timely fashion. So I called the Grand Canyon Motel where I had rooms reserved to beg them for patience. They were cool with it.
Just one more gorge picture..
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We put our heads down and got down to the business of getting to Fredonia. I had 2 rooms reserved but since Doug and Arnold had crapped out I had to get them to settle for me just getting one room. They said no sweat...that they'd rent it as it was a Friday night. I've stayed there before. A single is 38 bucks. They gave us a room with three beds for 50 bucks....way cool, and free internet with no security key.
We walked several blocks down the street for dinner which was very good. It had been a very good day on the bikes.
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