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Steven B · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:02 am Post subject: Day trip to Rachel, NV Nov 2011

Donna & I wanted to do an over-nighter, but the weather will be bad tomorrow, so just a quick trip out to Rachel, NV. for lunch.

The route

Waited for it to warm up a little, traffic had mostly cleared out - north on I - 15

North on Hwy 93

A whole lot of "nothing"

Stopped in Alamo, NV. for a quick cup

North on Hwy 375

Over the Hancock summit - 5500 feet

Long stretches of nothing - not even an E.T.

At last, Rachel, NV. comes into view

The Little A'Le'Inn...had to get the required photo

Notice the "Self Park" sign

Beam me up Scotty !

A couple of items of interest

E Clampus Victus - those boys get around

Wow, even the E.T.'s are wanting something for nothing

Donna had the "alien" burger, I had bacon & eggs - no pics though. A weather front was getting close, the wind began to pick up, Rachel was supposed to get snow - so we ate and left.

Donna waits for a ride

Where's all the moon maidens??

The leaves were really blowing around, we jumped up to Hiko, NV. which was only 5 miles from the junction, wanted to see the "ghost" town part of it, but nothing to see but one set of ruins from an old stone structure from the road...not worth the 10 minutes it took to ride up there.

Almost to I - 15 from Hwy 93 south bound

We did beat the rush hour traffic

I did get to try out my "free" Garmin 1300, I'll post a review shortly. Total 330 miles. We got home just in time - the wind is howling out there right now
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Steven B
1991 K100RS
BMWMOA # 69791

BobZ(IL) · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:36 pm Post subject:

A couple of your pictures reminds me of a beautiful Nevada morning in 2007 when we went for breakfast, 140 miles and 90 minutes later.
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'93 K1100LT
'78 R100S
'05 R1200GS
BMWMOA, CRBMWOA, ABC, K11OG #997

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Stoked Steve · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:09 pm Post subject:

Wow. a whole lotta flat and straight, and I thought we had it boring here in the coastal plains of the East Coast.

I guess the mountains are where it's at....

Thanks for the pics.
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Steve
Virginia Beach, VA
93 K1100RS Mystic Red SOLD
12 Suzuki DL650A VStrom

SugarHillCTD · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:21 am Post subject:

And I thought all the aliens were in MotoGP racing Laughing

Thanks for taking us along! (nice pictures Donna)
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John & Cathy

'92 K100RS4V Pearl White SOLD
'04 K1200GT
IBA Several-SS1k, BBG, 50CC NYC to S.F.

jimbenge · Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:14 am Post subject:

The Pics of the Little Alien reminded me of several years ago my wife and I stayed in one of the trailers out back. While we were gazing out the window the waitress came out to the dumpster to throw away some beer bottles. But before she threw the bottles away she checked each one to see if there was anything in them, and sure enough some still had some beer in them, she just chugged the remains right down several times. Later that eveinng she served us dinner ad then got dressed up as an alien complete with a baby. Very entertaining.
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Jim Benge, San Diego, CA.

1995 K1100LT
1993 K1100RS & Getaway trailer
K100RT with 1985 EML sidecar & Kwik-Kamp Trailer
2006 Harley 1200R Sportster

Steven B · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:10 am Post subject:

jimbenge · Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:22 am Post subject:

Hey Steven:

I just remembered I wrote an official recall of our Rachel experience on my website (10 years ago) see the link below.

http://jimbenge.4mg.com/page8.html
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Jim Benge, San Diego, CA.

1995 K1100LT
1993 K1100RS & Getaway trailer
K100RT with 1985 EML sidecar & Kwik-Kamp Trailer
2006 Harley 1200R Sportster