Friday, July 29th 2016. The goal for the day was to leave Prescott and arrive home without doing any fancy routes, which was about 375 miles.
I
got off at a decent hour and was able to get down to the base of the mountain in
about 15 minutes. This same route on the way up took about 2 hours due to slow
moving traffic. But, today there were really no cars.
I took the 89 to US-60 and grunted out the miles to the I-10.
The temperature was already at 90 degrees by 8:00 AM. Soon it went over
100 degrees and would stay there until I crossed the top of the Ortega highway
6 hours later.
I-10 was as I expected, hot and windy. The heat peaked at 112
degrees around the Morongo casino in Palm Springs.
I took the I-215
and went from Perris to Lake Elsinore on the I-74. Over the Ortega highway and I was home at
3:00 PM.
Altogether, the round trip between California and Illinois took 7,213 miles and 18 days.
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