Uncle Phil
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Today Andy and I leave for a little run across the country. We head for Ocean City, MD where Route 50 starts and then we will ride it to Sacramento, CA and then on to the Golden Gate Bridge (I hope the fog is not there this time). We'll do Pikes Peak on the way out, then Bodie, CA (ghost town) and the Extraterrestrial Highway (Area 51) on the way back. I've ridden Route 50 from Sacramento to Dodge City and various other parts of it, but I've wanted to do the whole thing for a long time. Route 50 is like the old Route 66, except 50 still exists in total. We'll be taking as much of the very 'original' road as there is and run up to Thistle (a town completely destroyed by a flood caused by a landslide) and back down on what is now Highway 6 where Route 50 used to run (they routed Route 50 with I70 from Grand Junction to about Salina when I70 was built) now. It's mostly two lane and goes through Washington DC, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City, Lake Tahoe, Austin, NV (Loneliest Highway In America), and Ely, NV. So if you see a Red ST1100 with a flag on the back and a Ducati Scrambler in hot pursuit, that would be us! 
