Day 1 - We're on holiday!
- Seattle to Boise
- 547 miles
- Friday, May 23
- (Click
on map to view the entire Day 1 route)
 What
a superb way to start the day and the trip - breakfast at a real diner out in
the countryside. Twede's is located in North Bend, WA, a town at
the edge of the western foothills of the Cascade Mountains. (Click
on photo to see the diner and the foothills)
Having breakfast here on a Friday morning
with the mountains looming just outside of town really helps to
jumpstart the "We're on holiday!" feeling.
 With
this much superslab to cover, boredom is a real problem. One of us
combats it by taking pictures of his mates in the mirror of his
Gold Wing while listening to Steely Dan on the stereo. (Click
on photo to view the entire photo)
Traveling Interstate 84 through Oregon is
about as good as it gets for superslab travel as it crosses the
Blue Mountains along the Oregon
Trail route. The State of Oregon calls it the Blue
Mountain Forest State Scenic Corridor and along with being
scenic, it has some excellent high speed sweepers.
Due to a baseball tournament in Ontario, OR,
our intended stop, taking up every motel room in town, we call ahead for reservations in Boise, ID and
push on. We end up at
a motor lodge downtown and we are unprepared for the party scene
that erupts all around us. The locals like to cruise the main
drag downtown until all hours of the night. Mobs of Harley riders
are making the scene for a Memorial Day rally and helmetless
squids on hot sportbikes are out in force.
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