Prescott Vacation!

So we came up to Prescott on Sunday. Came up to drop Daniel off at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for his first year of Aerospace Engineering. We have been coming up here for atleast seven years on vacation. We love it up here. So much to do here with the hiking, moutain biking, motorcycling, etc. We dropped Daniel at the university on Monday and haven't seen much of him since. We are a couple miles away in the Point of Rocks campground.

We have been keeping pretty busy. Inna has been able to go hiking in the mornings with some family friends and I have been able to get away on the XR to do some trail riding.

Tuesday I headed out towards Crown King going past Lynx Lake to start the ride. Cool ride up some backroads. Was about half way to Crown King when the rear end started sliding one way, then the other. Felt like a flat. Yep, indeed. 3" spike in the tire. I don't carry tire changing stuff, so it was a ride it out kinda thing. The trails weren't too bad, but alot of uphill and turns on the way back to Prescott. It was 20 miles on the flat. Thank god for rim locks. Kept the tire in place for sure. Also split the tire at each side of the sidwall on top of the rim lock. I knew it was going to kill the tire so no biggie. The last couple miles were on pavement, that was a little sketchy.

Inna came and picked me up in the truck and we headed out to Star Island Motorsports in Prescott Valley (formerly Hales Motors in Prescott). I had already called them and they had a Dunlop D-606 in stock and got it mounted up while I waited. Great service and prices. Not one store in San Diego had this tire in stock when I got it back in April. Anyway, got the tire on rode back to our campsite. Going North tomorrow.