Rally is over amd on to more roads

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Well, the rally has ended. After 6 days of 5 hours of sleep, this old fart is exhausted. We left the rally site Sunday at noon after packing up all the coffee stuff and getting it ready to load on the truck back to St. Louis. Just a short drive to the Red Lion for some R and R before hiting the road to Paonia, CO. Had a couple of malt beverages with Mad Dog at the bar during happy hour and then to bed for about 10 hours' Up this morning to send off extra sh** that wiould not fit in the bike. Shipping is not cheap and quite possibly I have spent more than the items cost originally.Met a really nice Irish guy who is the owner of Celtic Rider. He invited us to come to Ireland and rent bikes for a nice tour. Real Guiness!
Then on to McMinville to the Evergreen Museum that houses the Spruce Goose along with many aircraft and also spacecraft. Neat place and well worth the effort to seek it out.We just could not leave because we had to read everything. There is is interactive exhibits and even a water park with a slide coming out of a large jet. Cool!Rush hour in Portland proved to be a mess so stopped for the night at Travelodge. Travel tip: take a plastic kitchen size garbage bag and bag the pillow before the pillow slip. It is not a good idea to sleep in other people's sleep goo

Pictures to be posted later today

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