Update from Kevin via his Facebook page
"Well finally managed to get back online, it's been a chalenge to say the least, did get on to the sohc4.net forum a few times and there are a few posts there. this is my 3rd attempt today to post on facebook. update so far. from pennsylvania headed into maryland to west virginia via gettysburg, rode through the blue ridge park way and skyline drive, all mountain passes some great riding roads. headed south into Virginia through the great smokey mountains and the tail of the dragon route 129 into (deals gap) Tennessee. moving it along west to nashville, Memphis,little rock Arkansas, north up to the ozarks, Oklamhoma 3 days of pouring rain to Amarillo, Texas. picked up route 66 to santa rosa.(new mexco) turned south on the 84 to fort summer (grave site of billy the kid) took a deserted road route 20 to Roswell, headed west on route 380 to lincolm and white sands missle range. headed back north up to las vegas (new mexico) went up through the santa fe nat forest to 4 corners, into Colarado (briefly) and then west into Uta, turned south into Arizona and the Grand canyon nat park to Flagstaff. Got bitten to death by some un invited bugs in a more than my usaul cheap $50 or so motel bu at least Flagstaff was a nice town. picked up route 66 again to a great little town called seligman, real 50's kitch, still on the 66 to Hackerry getting pretty hot out in the desert around the 100 deg F, was over a 100 down in Roswell. eventually got to Kingman.
Yesterday headed to Needles in California still on the 66,got on to the I40 and the 66 to Barstow, this is through the Mojave desert..........Holy crap around 115F no shade to be found and i thought it gets hot in Africa, man the little 400 motor was dam hot i am sure i could have fryed an egg in seconds on it, remined me of the heat in eastern Syria. by the time i got to Barstow it was only mid day and 107 f, but i was finished and pulled in to the route 66 motel and cranked up the aircon.
Today went to visit the guys at APE at the willow springs raceway. Kevin saw your crank and rodswhen Jay was showing me around the workshop. (awesome shop) headed west on the 138 to Carpinteria near Santa Barbara, man it was windy as hell serious cross winds etc. California is much more expensive than the other states i went through, packet of smokes from 3.50 in virginia too 7 dollars in california. plus petrol around a dollar a galon more.
Milage to date: Just over 8000 Km's average fuel consumption 26km's per litre (62 mpg US).
Hoping to meet up with Lisa from the motorcycle forum (sohc4.net) tomorrow before heading towads San Francisco on the coast road route 1.
More to come, will try to post some pics when i get a better conection.
Also if anybody has sent emails, i can not get conected to my email for some reason.
Kevin
