Days 16 and 17 - Heading home

The last 2 days of our journey would be a final push through the desert with an overnight stop at Brad's Mom's house.  I was a little nervous because I had become sick on our first day out when temperatures hit 108.

We said our goodbyes to guys from The Ride Central and head south on I-15 through Las Vegas.  One of the best parts of the ride between So. Utah and Las Vegas in the Virgin River Canyons you go though in the north west tip of Arizona.

We hit some wind heading across, stopped at Las Vegas Harley to pick up a shirt for a gift/donation to an active service man. 

The winds seemed to subside slightly as we moved across the desert and the traffic for a Sunday was not too bad between Las Vegas, NV and Apple Valley, CA.   I was wearing a cooling vest and happy to see the "World's Tallest Thermometer" was only reading 102 degrees when we hit Baker, CA. It was much cooler then it had been only a couple of days ago and even though it did make it to 106, it was only for a short period and we managed to make it to Brad's Mom's with out trouble.

Monday around 11am we headed for home the wind was kicking up pretty bad and we didn't want the hassle of extreme wind.  We were too late though.  As we neared El Mirage park near Atalanto, CA we thought we saw a fire but instead it turned out to be a huge sand storm.  Luckily we seemed to skirt the major sand storm areas and only got sand blasted a bit. 

Finally home we have been mostly just vegging out and catching up on things.  I have to work in the morning so recovering from the trip will have to wait for the weekend.  I'll probably post some final thoughts on the trip in a day or two.  In the mean time I've finished uploading pictures to our album at http://picasaweb.google.com/BradnBev/Vacation2009.