Seattle BBQ for Bluepoof and WCRM II - Day 3

I woke up scared that I overslept my alarm again. Looked at my watch and realized that the alarm will go off in about 2 minutes. Good. I got up, took a shower, packed everything up, checked out of the hotel and went to la casa de DDx. dm_gsxr was already there on his Hayabusa (he came up from Colorado, and has another week to travel around the NorthWest). DDx and Bluepoof were already up, and were getting ready. While I waited, dm_gsxr went over to fill up his tank, and then came back.

We finally got on the road and followed DDx down to Enumclaw, where we got around 8:50 am. There were a bunch of bikes already waiting. I didn't need to fill up since it's been less than 50 miles since my last fillup, but I did anyway. I put in a little over 1 gallon :)

From this point on, I have no idea what roads I was on. I was just following people. We hit some nice roads on the way down, we filled up and were joined by more bikes, and we hit more nice roads. Then some people pulled over, and the rest of the group kept going. I waited a bit, and then decided to keep going. I never caught up with the first group. In fact, after some time on very nice roads, I realized that I missed a turn somewhere and was no longer on the correct route (I knew what the approximate route looked like on the map). I decided to just follow my GPS to Bend, since I had no idea where I was. The fastest way to Bend from there was through I-205 in Portland, according to my Garmin. Straight roads, boring... but I got to Bend around 5pm and registered at the Best Western. I then rode down to VFRfan's BBQ. The food was good, and there were a lot of people there.

Some pictures:



















I was still tired, since I haven't been getting enough sleep in the last week, and so I left when most people started leaving. Filled up on the way back to the Best Western to have a full tank in the morning. I unpacked the bike and went over to 7-eleven to get a sandwich for breakfast tomorrow morning (there's a fridge in the room here).

When I came back I decided to write all of this up and post it - but alas, still no Internet connection! I guess you guys get to wait until I get home tomorrow night to see all of these :)

P.S. I should put more air in my rear tire tomorrow morning, just in case it starts slowly losing pressure.