The day starts with a pre-sunrise breakfast at the Aberdeen Country Kitchen (not affiliated with the chain restaurant). It’s so early we’re the first customers – we’ve even made it in before the Idaho farmers. I order a great ham & cheese omelette. That should fuel me through my 10 hour drive from Aberdeen to Vegas today.
The breakfast at Country Kitchen is spectacular. Somehow my buddy Stephen even gets the farmer discount. Cultivating Facebook pages for clients must count as farming nowadays – ha! I say goodbye and head on down the road.
Potato season is just about over in rural Idaho and the sugar beet harvest is just ramping up. All along the road trucks full of sugar beets are headed from the field to wherever it is they process the harvested crop. It’s amazing to me that the sun is barely up and there are so many trucks with full loads already.
I’ve got an 11:00 appointment at ATK Motorcycles in Centerville, UT and I pull up right on time. I’m here to meet Frank White, CEO of the company to do a video interview for the MotoGeo site I’m building with my motorcycle buddy Jamie Robinson. I talk with Frank for a couple hours, learn all about his business, riding bikes in the Utah mountains, his father’s acting role on The Jack Benny Show & as director of the Pasadena Playhouse, and Frank’s role within the government regulating off-highway vehicle usage.
The conversation with Frank is great and I hope to be back in Utah soon riding some ATK bikes both around town and out on the Bonneville salt flats. As I make my way south toward Vegas I stop off in Provo to grab a quick bite to eat and get a little relief from the 20 miles of construction taking place on Interstate 15.
A week’s worth of driving has left my iPod selection a bit less “random” than the mode suggests so I opt to play a couple movies. I don’t actually watch the movies, just listen to them. Heck, I’ve seen the movies I’ve got on the iPod so many times I can visualize them all anyhow. The drive seems to go much faster with the movies playing in the background and before I know it I’m at Las Vegas Fire Station #3 saying hello to my long-time friend Lee. As soon as we shake hands a call comes over the loudspeaker and he’s off to work. It’s pretty cool to finally get to see him drive the big engine out of the station with the lights flashing and sirens blaring. A good end to a long day’s journey.
This will likely cap off my trip blog. I’ve been on the road for a week and will be here in Vegas a bit hanging out with my buddy Lee and his family. See you all on the next adventure…
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