We departed Beatty NV @ 6:00am outfitted in leather jackets and gloves which we shed by 7:00am as we descended in to Death Valley. We stopped for coffee at the Furnace Creek General Store and on to Badwater Basin (282 feet below sea level) where we met up with the TV crew for the Weather Channel who were there because of the projected (128 degrees!) record or near record high temperatures today.It was 8:00am and 92 degrees already.We then pushed on to Shoshone CA and down to Baker and the Mojave Desert to Newberry Springs where we had lunch at the Bagdad Cafe on old Route 66 the setting of a movie of the same name starring Jack Palance. After lunch we rode on to Barstow where we arrived hot, tired and dirty and checked in to the Barstow Ramada Inn. After a few drinks and dinner (awful) at Vick's Sports Bar we turned in for the night. The next leg of our trip is to ride old Route 66 to the Grand Canyon with a detour to Laughlin NV.
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