spencer14554's Tuesday June 26th, 2012

Left Denver this morning with reasonable temps and light winds, nice riding.
This changed when we got out of the mountains and into the plains. We were soon dealing with 25-30 mph winds first from the southwest, and then from due south. The temp also began to climb and we were soon I'm 100 plus temps which lasted all the way to the campsite. It was like riding in a blast furnace.
When running down the interstate the winds caused the KLR to weave and wobble all over the place and made it hard to maintain any kind of pace. At one point we arrived at an accident scene where an 18 wheelers trailer had blown over and the truck wound up in the median almost on the other side. Very impressive!
We left the interstate and took to back roads but did no better. While running south into a headwind, I managed to run the KLR out of gas. Luckily Rick had bought an auxiliary gas can at the rally and had filled
It with gas, so he was able to rescue me and we finally found some fuel in Kingman KS were able to continue on to the campground.
We had a very full day covering about 550 miles and enjoying some of it more than other parts.