2015 Harley Road Trip: Part 6, Sturgis, Road Tripping With Anthony “Drifter” Landis

2015 Harley Road Trip: Part 6, Sturgis, Road Tripping With Anthony “Drifter” Landis

“The best memories begin with insane ideas”….unknown

Anthony and I left heading south after grabbing a casino style breakfast and, as always, we took the rural highways instead of the interstates. Our route started out basically the same as the route Hotrod and I took the year before when we left our dad’s house;  beautiful mountain roads, forests, lakes, rivers, and valleys.

One of the must go to stops was that slowest greasiest cafe ever with the best burgers that I wrote about in my 2014 ride in Ukiah, Or.. The burgers was just as great as I remembered and the service still sucked.

 After a day’s ride, we made it to Eugene, Or. where the I-5 cuts through the city. We found an Appleby’s restaurant for an early dinner.

During dinner, Anthony decided he had had enough of winding mountain roads and that the thought of several days along the coastal Hwy. 101 just didn’t appeal to him. He said he would rather just hop on the I-5 and head south back home in the morning. My initial thought was to continue with my plan along the coast but decided it would be better to stay together just in case of an accident or a breakdown. After dinner, we found a cheap motel and each got a room for the night. 

At 5:30 AM the next morning, we gassed up at the truck stop across the street from the motel, bought a 20 oz. cup of nasty-ass truck stop coffee and choked down some prepackaged mystery muffins.

For the next 18 plus miserable ball-busting hours, we travel the 825 miles south on the I-5 making it home just before midnight. To date, that is the longest ride I have every done in a single day. Doesn’t quite qualify me for the “Iron Butt Club.” That requires 1000 miles in a day…….I just don’t ever see that happening.