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| Nigel viewing the Sierra Nevada... |
After a dreadful nights sleep as the kids and their handlers were all playing hide and seek around the camp until about 3am !!!! It was up and away by 8am… We changed the route to ride through the Sierra Nevada National Park… and the road was excellent – not much is the way of barriers or Armco but a good road.. The term ‘Twisty roads’ is an understatement and so 3 grades of “Wiggly” would be required…. Most of the time it was just plain on wiggly but on the steep parts it went as far a wiggly wiggly wiggly….
Having scared myself fartless for the best part of 5 hours today we arrived at the campsite at about 1.30pm and were met by Rui complete with new tyre and living in a Huckleberry Finn cabin with grass awning… noisy fridge, electricity and his very own internal “dunny”…. We are sat outside now using his electric and the camp WiFi…The riding has been excellent even though very hot… but the plains are very boring and even hotter… like having a hair dryer pointed at you all the time…. Which reminds me to go and get some air in the boots and riding trousers… now that a few hours have passed !!!!
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| Nigel and tents - with Rui's hut in the back ground |
One thing of note from yesterday we that I was so tired when we arrived that I broke to rule of no beer until the tents were up….. and so having had just one well earned beer we left the car park to find the camping ground – the lady said back up the hill and it’s on the right… I rounded the corner, saw a hill and gunned it…… then saw that I was fast approaching a paddling pool at the top onf the slope !!!! Bugger and all stop…. some very surprised looking bathers too....
Back down the hill and ride up the “other” hill…. Again I saw the target and went for it…. Rev rev go go…. Half way up the concrete stopped and the gravel started…. And the road was gone !!! Wrong again… and had the slide back down backward with the front wheel locked and dragging – and only just managed to avoid the steep drop to the right…… “oh shit” was the technical term for it…. Next time David or Rui and do the path finding…
Night night – Tomorrow is a shorter day with all three bikes back together…..