Lewiston Idaho Trip
6/5-6/11
Just North of Sacramento on I-5 is a small town called Dunnigan, it's located at I-5 & 505, there is a camp ground there called happy time RV Park, the spaces rent for $15.00 per night, you are allowed two bikes per space, $7.50 ea,per night. There are also two motels there, the Best Western Country Motel, phone 530-724-3471, their prices range from, 1person $52.00 to $59.00, 2persons $65.00 to $79.00 per night. Than you have the Value Lodge, 530-724-3333, Their prices are 1person $46.00 and 2 persons $55.00 to $58.00 per night. We will be leaving Dunnigan @ 7:00am on the morning of June the 5th, so it would be advisable for all concerned to spend the night in Dunnigan. Our first day of riding will be around 450 miles, and the second one will be pretty close to that also.
This site has a listing of 2 hotels, 2 motels and 2 campgrounds.
Just click here
and you should be able to book hotels online You will have to
call about campgrounds and motels.
Things to do in Lewiston according to the Chamber
of Commerce.
Here is a copy of the webinfo
provided by the Sponsor group. Also you will find an application
here. If you don't have Acrobat reader you may want to try this
word
version.
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On June 4th we, John Adkins & I headed north to Dunnigan Ca, where we met up with Bob Webb, George Rogers, Duane Stark, Jim Kramlich, Bob & Sandy Joyner. @0700 on Tuesday June the 5th we all pulled out for Bend Oregon, the weather was wonderful, this is motorcycle riding weather and we were all in 7th heaven. We arrived in Bend around 5:30pm, got our rooms, cleaned up a little, and than had a nice meal at Denny’s. John & I were playing a game of dominos rather than watching TV, when Sandy Joyner came in and said I love to play dominos, can I play too. John was a little suspicious of her, but I figured we could clean her out in no time flat. Wrong she kicked both of our butts; it was than that I decided we had been hustled. |
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We went into the restaurant and ordered coffee, the waitress asked if we wanted anything to eat, and I told her no that we had breakfast in Bend. But ole turn coat Bob asked her if she had any sweet rolls, the answer was, I think the cook is making cinnamon rolls, she goes back to check and comes back with a big smile on her face and says yes we have cinnamon rolls. Now how many of you want one, we all raised our hands except for Duane & Sandy. She comes out with an armload of plates with a cinnamon roll on each plate. When we saw the size of those rolls all of us just about fainted, I will swear they were at least 7" square x 3" high. To make a long story short, only one person ate his entire roll, and he will remain nameless for health reasons.
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We arrived in Lewiston about 5:20pm, drove around town for 30 minutes looking for an entrance into the camp grounds at the fair grounds, Bob finally found it for us, we set up camp real quick and relaxed for the rest of the day. Friday morning arrived dark and cloudy and cold, and it remained that way for the next three days, except for the times when it was raining, reminded me of Red River last year. The rally was ok; they put a lot of work into this one and than the weather turned bad on them, so you just have to take the bad with the good. Duane Ash promised us a larger & better rally for next year, but wouldn’t make any promises on the weather. Well I guess two out of three isn’t all that bad after all John, Bob & I got in about 3 hours of fishing on Sat morning, We caught probably 25 fish, but we were throwing them back, until we finally realized they just weren’t going to get any larger than 7 to 10”, than we started keeping them, we took 18 back to camp, john cleaned them and even cooked them. (What a guy). |  |
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Tuesday morning found us sitting outside the hotel wondering
who the H left the gate open on the North Pole, It was 36deg,
but by now we are tougher than an old boot and can handle this
just fine, even though we are both in summer riding gear.
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