Thursday October 17 - Globe AZ to Tucson AZ

Excellent day and the last one. Motel 6 has coffee and the guy running was very nice. Ran it for 14 years, came from Malaysia, seems proud of his motel and it actually shows in how well maintained it is. Unusual for low end motels. The girl last night at the desk was Apache and had just moved off "the res" to work at the motel. She said there was just an annual Apache get together in town last weekend.
I had plenty of time today, but a lot of moving parts. I went across the street for Micky D's Egg McMuffin for breakfast and two Beemer guys from Colorado were there in full gear and nice new GSS1250's. They were a little taken aback that I had ridden all the way from VT. They had been out a week and were heading back to CO.

I had one missing link which was getting from the storage place to the hotel. I tried setting up and Uber account but ran into password hell so bagged it and decided to just walk it. I sent Uber a message telling them the problem. The a quick trip up to Roosevelt AZ where the Theodore Roosevelt Lake is. I assume it is water for Phoenix, but the road up there is beautiful and it was of course a beautiful day (another one). Lots of twisties and lovely views and no traffic and 70's. The turn around and head back toward Phoenix. As I hit the valley floor, the temperature shot up to the mid 90's and stayed there for the rest of the day. Cut south before I got to the city stuff and found

a mix of nothing scrub/desert and some large cotton fields and hay growing (thanks to irrigation). I tripped onto the spot where Tom Mix died in a car accident in 1940. Sounds like quite a character, living large. I stopped an hour north of Tucson and had a long leisurely coffee break. Uber fixed my account and I finished filling everything out, I made a reservation at the hotel near the airport (with shuttle service). So All I had to do was check at the motel after 3, leave everything I was taking home at the motel and load everything that was going to stay in storage on the bike, ride the bike to the storage place, roll it into the 5x8, oil the chain one last time, lock it up, talk to the nice ladies in the storage place office. A customer in the office used to drive for Uber so explained how it all. I waited on the corner watching the little Uber app car and talked to an older man who was waiting for a truck to show up with some steel. He was a welder and spoke little english, but told me all the different kinds of welding he did (heli-arc, tig, stick, etc). He said years ago he working on California welding up the Exxon Valdez tanker (before it crashed). So I successfully did my first Uber (I know, it's not that hard but, I can check that box..) The Uber guy did it part time and was very pleasant.
So another trip comes to an end. The Kawasaki X300 is awesome. It has been in all 48 lower states. Total miles was 5636 and averaged 332 miles per travelling day. I ended up with too much time but used it doing a big loop around Arizona. Time to go home..

Odometer beginning of trip = 35820
Odometer beginning of day = 41247
Odometer end of day = 41456
Miles today = 209
Miles on trip to date = 5636
Travel days = 17
Zero days = 2
Average miles per traveling day = 332