While enroute from Yosemite to Las Vegas, we stopped in Tonopah a town about 300 km. north of Las Vegas on route 95. It is a former mining town and Nevada mining towns are even less attractive than BC lumber towns !! While there we met Michael Gabriel who was on an ST 1300 a year newer than Dave's 2006 but equipped with all sorts of fancy and useful after-market travelling items such as: highway pegs that swing out from the crashbars; cruise control; and (remember the former post) a sheepskin seat cover. He was from Edmonton and along the way had stopped off at the Bonneville Slat Flats in Utah and got his machine up to 220 km/hr. Dave was impressed. Bev was more excited because she had left some personal items in a small town that afternoon, Benton, and Michael who was headed that way decided to try and retrieve them, subsequently hoping to mail them to Toronto.
For those of you who might not know, bike riders are amazingly supportive of each other. They are friendly, happy and well-spoken. We hope Michael will visit in Toronto in the future.
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