Days 13 and 14 (Thursday and Friday Wk 2)

Day 13 finds us on the interstate all day making our way toward Tahoe. We have had wind gusts every day, and today was no exception. We barely missed a bad dust storm last night and apparently we also missed a bad thunderstorm that knocked out power. Whewww! We did see something interesting along the interstate that was similar to the "hat tree" that we saw a day or so before. This was a "shoe tree". Every branch was hanging heavy with all kinds of pairs of shoes. This reminds us of the tree beside I-40 that is decorated for Christmas and July 4th. The only difference is that these trees are "decorated" every day of the year! LOL

The Lake Tahoe area is a very beautiful area in the month of June. I would think it is even more beautiful in the snowy winter time. There are cabins all the way around Lake Tahoe. The water is a very beautiful color of blue, and there was one area with 3 shades of blue. The temperature was very mild and Pam even had on all 3 layers of her jacket. Imagine that! :-)


We ate dinner at Jax by the Trax, a restaurant that had been reviewed on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives. It is a historical site in Truckee, Ca. We had burgers and their signature Parmesan chips. All of it was good! There was absolutely no room left for any dessert. Didn't even wanna think about dessert!


We left there and headed toward Susanville, CA., where we spent the night.

Day 14. We started out today with a cool morning at 54 degrees. The drive to Redding was through the mountains, so it stayed cold for most of the ride there. One of the national parks there is Lassen NP and Mount Lassen was covered in snow while the rest of the peaks had no visible snow. We saw a mountain peak that had even more snow on it than Mount Lassen, called Mount Shasta as we dropped into Redding.


We visited the Russell Seat factory and that was very interesting. The seat on our bike was made by this company in 2001, and we had it completely rebuilt early this year. It has been through four bikes now and keeps on being the most comfortable seat ever. What was so interesting in the way the seats are built is that they build the seat from the foam form all the way through the leather covering right there in their building. The same form is used for all the seats, whether large or small or anywhere between, and they just modify it to fit. All seats are custom fit, and are set on a bed of springs that give as needed to keep the ride comfortable. They modify any kind of motorcycle seat imaginable (one was a seat from France that is not even available here) and there is a long waiting list of seats to modify. There were approximately 40 seats in the rack to be worked on, so they stay busy. We had to wait about 3 months before we could send ours to them the first of this year. Every seat they send out is a modification of a seat already made.

We left there and found a motel early in the day so we could rest, do laundry, and catch up on the blog. A lot of the motels we have been on do not have high speed Internet and that makes it hard to get pictures uploaded and added.

We are headed for the coast tomorrow to ride the Pacific Coast Highway! We hope to make it to Crescent City tomorrow night.