USA Tour day2-3

 7/19/10  Day 2-3

Wow what a great night we had at the Party. we walked down Fremont Street, all dressed up and I think people thought we were part of the entertainment the light show was just fantastic. At the party everybody dressed up in the 70s gear.

It was quite a spectacular event about 200 people we left about 11 pm as we had an early start on our first ride

We started about 7-30am as we were going to Hoover dam before all the crowds started.

We did the dam and they have now a overpass as they are wanting to stop people driving over the dam. we were very fortunate that we could still ride across, the over pass will be opened in a few months.

The weather is very hot, we then set on our ride thru a National park in the desert, the colours of the mountains was just so beautiful and the little water in the dams  just glistened in the sunlight, the roads were just great we were just riding along and Alan's Harley decided to stop  and it would not go no matter what he tried it is now 120 no shade in the desert. So Alan set off on the BMW to find some help, he was gone for nearly 3 hours so Vic and I tried to find some shade we did have water and the trusty jelly beans and a muesli bars,

 There was some road works working (on a Sunday) and the truckles gave us some more water and some Gatorade, we made some make shift lean-tos with a few branches etc (the tribe thing come in here) but the sun was moving over head so we had to keep moving No cell phone service Alan Arrives back about 12-30 saying that a tow truck will be with us in about 2 hours, bugger we are still stuck in the bloody sun, but he brought back a tarp and some ocky straps , So we strap them across the bikes so we could have some shade, I just kept looking for the buzzards to attack.

At about 2pm the truck arrives and Alan loads it on to the truck and we still have about 170klms to get back to Las Vegas, by this time i have heat exhaustion and we ride thru the Valley of Fire Gee it was bloody hot. We follow the truck to a point it is just so bloody hot I can't take it so I am in the truck just wanta die.

We get to the Harley shop(the biggest in the world in Red Rock) they do a test on Alan's Bike and they said it was fuel fuse, but that is not all, there is a big clunk so now Alan is leaving his bike in the shop and he now is going to do the tour in his Mustang

All worked out well so now we are back home in the air cons tomorrow we are  thru DEATH VALLEY..I thought we were all ready there

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