Quiet day in Duke City

Breakfast today was our last presentation from Michael and Suzanne Wallis on the rest of our trip. Good information but it looks like a lot of the ride tomorrow is on the interstate with less opportunities to ride the original road. We are watching the weather too as there are some pretty severe storms predicted for the area tomorrow. Worse come to worse, we will spend another day here, skip the stop in Flagstaff and ride the 450 miles between here and Kingman, Az the day after tomorrow. Hope it is not that bad.

After breakfast, I cleaned up my bike, it had been a few days and it was pretty bad. I did a workout at the gym (badly needed with all of the food I have been consuming) then I went to "Old Town" to browse. Old Town is a section of the old city that they have turned into something of an arts and crafts venue. It is nice with many streets lined with old adobe buildings and a really pleasant square with a park. I recommend a trip to this part of the country. Between Albuquerque and Santa FE, it is some of the most beautiful country that I have seen.
Dinner tonight was a t the local dealer, really good mexican. Then the dealer took us on this incredible ride that took us around the city but out in the desert. Really nice and quite breathtaking. Our last stop on the ride was to see the 2010 Cannonball Run come into the city. The Cannonball run is a cross country race for pre 1916 motorcycles that started in Kitty Hawk, NC and will end up in Santa Monica, California the same day that we are there. It was really neat to see the motorcycles and talk to the competitors.
Early to bed tonight, 350 mies to Flagstaff tomorrow.

Oh, no pictures, my mother's fool left the camera in the hotel today!