DAY 10 WESTERN STATES RIDE

Left this morning with me in the lead and quickly crossed the river to the Washington side. It was a two lane road curving back and forth on the upper bank of the Columbia. The temp was perfect a few scattered clouds, a barge heading towards the drawbridge, the morning sun glinting off the rapidly moving water.

As I headed up the side of the gorge leaning into a long right hand corner with five friends right behind I turned on the cd player and picked up the Ballad of Easy Rider by Roger McGuinn (The Byrds).

The river flows
It flows to the sea
Wherever that river goes
That's where I want to be
Flow river flow
Let your waters wash down
Take me from this road
To some other town

After that start the rest of the day just didn't matter. The timing of the music often makes the moment. We did drive to Boise ID on some beautiful highway with snow covered peaks in the distance, tomorrow north towards Yellowstone.

I was asked to include a story that occurred a couple of days ago at lunch. I was still in the Dairy Queen and everyone else had left to get on their bikes. A man that had cornered Jan with stories of the bikes he almost owned and trips he came close to taking had cornered me waiting for the restroom. He had noticed that we all had license plate frames that said KOA-789. For those of you that don't know this is the call sign of the Phoenix PD radio station and is used to identify us to phoenix officers. Well not wanting to go into a long explanation I told him that it stood for "Kings Of Annihilation the fighting 789th" and that he should google it for more info. I hope he lost some sleep sitting at his computer just like I am typing at mine.
Goodnight