Startpoint: Evanston, WY
Endpoint: Lincoln, NE
Miles traveled: 800
Mishaps: 0
Tickets: 0
Gallons of gas used: 19.646
But first I would like to mention that Valentine 1 rocks - I love those directional arrows and the threat counter!! Now I want even more - it should have an LCD screen showing me all the threats and their location relative to me. Maybe it can integrate with the GPS and put markers where all the threats are? I can dream, right?
Fillup in Evanston, WY in the morning
Coming across Wyoming after the Rockies reminded me of crossing Eastern Montana back when I bought that KLR from DantesDameX. Very very windy - so much so that I saw a semi being blown a couple of feet to the side (into my lane, but I was pretty far back) while going down I-80. Coming into Nebraska, the wind wasn't as harsh, but still bad.
Nebraska is boring. This is what it looks like:
FJR at rest stop in Nebraska
ALL of it looks like that. Well, ok, it got greener as I moved East and even had some lakes (ponds? puddles?) near I-80. But still flat and boring with nothing to see. I stopped in Lincoln, NE for the night and went to a local place called Runza - had a great philly cheesesteak with onion rings there. For a change, I got to Lincoln while it was still light out, unlike the previous night where the last 100 miles or so were in the dark.
I should also mention, that while my ER-6 earphones are great, the left one was hurting my ear a little on Day 1. By the middle of this day (Day 2), I had to take them out and just use earplugs, because the left one was hurting too much. Of course, this means that I have no sound from the radar detector, so I kept my speed down and only used the visual indicators.
One more thing - talking to people at gas stations, a lot of them are starting to say things like "holy crap, you rode that all the way from California?!" :)
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