Always an adventure!

After a leisurely morning packing and headed into more desert, we quickly realized the desert was having a cold snap.  So we stopped to add a layer and hydrate.  Yes even though it's in the 60's in the there still is no humidity, and we found ourselves getting a little disoriented.  So, after a brief stop at Carl's Jr. in Thousand Palms, we started riding into some pretty dark clouds that looked like they may dump on us before they lift over the mountains, which brought us to another brief stop for another layer.  The wind was so strong even cars were slowing on the 5 lane highway headed to LA.

(I've always wondered if these people going 85 or 90 miles an hour, 5 lanes sometimes as many as 7, headed down this mountain all of rallying for the front of the traffic, ... do they know there is an ocean in front of us, and all this rushing comes to an end right up here? It is the most aggressive traffic with lane changing going on bumper to bumper at literally 80 - 85 mph, make no mistake!)

Anyway, back to our second stop for more layers, wind, rain, and what? (Dope deals going down in the gas station parking lot ... OK - maybe we chose the wrong exit to stop, but it was here that I saw messages, texts and FB posts, when my phone has been so quiet for 4 days.

And at the same time the hubby states:  "I believe  left my phone at our last stop - remember Carl's Jr?"

So, I'm so brilliant, I decide to check my voice mails, emails and texts etc on my phone and they are all about the hubby's phone.

The waitress calling phone numbers to find it's owner, friends calling my phone to get a phone/owner reunion going, and in all those calls we have no idea where that Carl's Jr was.  Finally deducted it was 30 miles back, and at the same time remembered Don is coming through on the same route tomorrow, so he's getting Russ's phone, giving a sweet thank you to the waitress for her honesty and efforts, and we will be able to stay in communication on Run For The Wall.  Our jobs take us different directions so much the next 12  days, two phones are critical.

Cell phones what did we ever do without them?

We arrived in time to attend a memorial for one of our riders, Vance Scott, who died since we were all together last year, we also lost, Tom Lockett, and were thinking of his wife Julie.

Caught up with several friends, and met a new couple, Karen and Jim, and already exchanged patches and pins, what a sweet couple, we're going to keep track of them across country.  This is such an emotional event.