...s Canyon that is. Wishing I had a mesh jacket right about now. Unfortunately I didn't get many scenic photo ops but I still have some pictures to share anyway.
First stop about 50 miles in, Cambridge, ID.
Turns out I'm not very good at taking pictures of food before I start eating it, however since pictures of meals seem to be standard fare...
Our next stop:
We couldn't have picked a better time to go, shortly after they had chip sealed the road
. Gravel was really only bad in the middle of the lane, but still... Kind of a killjoy.
Managed to pick up a phototag along the way! Brownlee Power Plant.
This is where we decided to start looping back. We could have gone the rest of the way in, but decided against it because of the other weekend traffic. This was in Oxbow, ID.
Finally at one of the more scenic areas there were some turn-outs. This was over Richland, OR.
From there we went into Baker City, OR. For some reason I guess I didn't feel as though I needed to take any pictures of Baker other than my partially consumed meal (like I said..). Spinach chicken bacon salad. They probably had a better name for it than I did but I don't remember.
One last rest stop 30 miles out.
Then home. Didn't run into any major problems. I overfilled my tank a little bit at our first stop and it started leaking while I had it on the side stand (didn't know it would do that). In my panic after finding a puddle under the bike I shut off the petcock, then forgot to turn it back on when we left. Ran the bowls plum out of fuel and pulled over. Once I realized what had happened, I couldn't get it started again. Cranked and cranked and cranked until the battery started to run a little low, then started trying to push start it instead. Eventually it came back to life (with the starter, I didn't get too far with the pushing...) and everything else went without a hitch
