Day Ten - Monday - Davis-Monthan AFB Boneyard and Back to Phoenix

We are trying to get going this morning after a late night of playing dice and losing $$ with my buddy Captain Morgan.
We mad it to Davis-Monthan AFB and museum. It just amazing to see how many plans are just sitting around collecting dust.

After finishing the Davis-Monthan Boneyard bus tour we got a nice send off. As we saddled up to ride two F-16 went screaming by with full afterburners than a F-4 took-off climbing nearly straight up. It was very cool Top Gun stuff.


17:00hr
We just got back to our Phoenix hotel all safe n sound.
It was a hot day riding, the temps were in the 90's and we had some heavy traffic with lights then about 70 miles of desert to cross. The winds picked up again and were blowing across the road at about 25-30mph creating little sand devils, swirling clouds of sand, so we backed the speed off a little. This was a small straight two lane bidirectional road and every time a large truck would approach and pass us head on we all got sand blasted.
We stopped in a two bit town of Florence for a break, gas and a drink. After leaving there we had trouble finding AZ-79 again and found ourselves in the middle of the Arizona State Prison Complex. It didn't take long to get the hell out of there and get back on track.
We stopped one more time inside the city limits of Phoenix to fine-tune our directions to the hotel.

After we got back to the hotel we got the bikes loaded on the trailer then went out for dinner and beer.
The Courtyard hotel worked out great and treated us well as always. Thanks to Allen, the hotel manager, for giving me the air crew rate and letting us leave our truck and trailer there for the week.


We road a total of 1,600 miles in wind, rain, snow, sleet, hail, sand, and sun.

We had a GREAT bunch of guys, good bonding, good riding, great views, and an experience of a lifetime we'll never forget.

This is a great bunch of OLD DOGS, or as Richard would say "One old Dog and 4 Pups"

We are all thankful. We didn't have any major breakdowns, flats, dings, losses or speeding tickets that we know of. A very safe ride, now we need to get Dale and Richard back home with the trailer safely.