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DinerGlide

📅 8 d sedan 👁 1 👍 1

Walking the Last Mile to the Chloride Murals

Solo Ride Night Ride Desert Autumn Golden Hour +3

Twenty miles north of Kingman, 93 is all business. Four lanes, trucks running for Vegas, and on a Saturday a steady line of pickups with boat trailers and out-of-state plates headed for the casinos. Nobody on that road is looking at the hills. I wasn't either, the first dozen times.The turn for Chloride comes up on the right with almost no warning, and four miles of county road later you are in a town that has decided, as far as I can tell, to keep its own hours. A couple hundred people, maybe. Dogs that come out to look at you and then go back to the shade. Old mining iron in the front yards, painted up or left to rust, depending on who lives there. It was a silver town once. It still looks like it is waiting to hear whether the price is coming back.What I came for is about a mile and a h...

DustLine

📅 17 d sedan

Nevoeiro e garranos na Freita

Gravel Fog Sunrise Portugal Autumn +3

Quarta-feira tirei a manha, coisa que quase nunca faco, e sai de casa as seis e meia ainda de noite. A ideia era a Serra da Freita, que ficou o verao inteiro na lista porque com o calor nao me apetecia subir a lado nenhum depois das nove.A estrada ate Arouca fiz no escuro, com a Scrambler a acordar devagar e o frio a entrar pelas mangas. Depois de Arouca a estrada comeca a subir em curvas apertadas e a meio da serra entrei no nevoeiro. Daqueles grossos, que molham o visor por dentro e por fora. Fui a quarenta, a ouvir o motor e mais nada, e por duas vezes encostei so para limpar o visor com a luva.La em cima, perto de Albergaria da Serra, o nevoeiro abriu de repente. Por baixo ficou tudo branco, o vale de Arouca inteiro enterrado, e por cima o ceu limpo com o sol a sair por tras dos montes...

DinerGlide

📅 1 mån sedan 👁 8 👍 1

Two From Chicago and an Empty Tank on Gold Road

Solo Ride Desert Switchbacks Sunset Hot Weather +5

There is a stretch of the old road west of Kingman that most people drive once, take a photograph of, and never come back to. It runs out past Cool Springs and then starts climbing into the Black Mountains toward Sitgreaves Pass, and by the time you are up in the switchbacks there is no shoulder worth the name and a drop off the right side that puts rental cars down to fifteen miles an hour and keeps them there. I ride it a couple times a month, always late in the day, once the heat has let go and the light starts coming in sideways across the rock.Thursday I went out around six with no plan past Oatman and back. Stopped at Cool Springs the way I always do, that rebuilt station with the stone pillars where the tour vans line up at noon and nobody at all stops at supper time. Sat there a wh...