The Cafe Crowbar in Shoshone

We stopped for lunch in Shoshone, a little town just at the entrance of Death Valley. The Café Crowbar has been standing there for a very long time and looks like the perfect western saloon. We had lunch there also five years ago when I came to Death Valley with my wife, mother and kids and it was a little moving to be back there. Next to the Café sits an old 1940's car next to disused gas pumps. It is a very "the Postman always ring twice" atmosphere (the remake with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway being as good as the original movie with Lana Turner and John Gardner). The wind was blowing hard that day and I had a difficult time keeping the Triumph on the right lane. It was pretty scary. The Ducati is not as sensitive to sidewinds, unless my packing is only to blame. The loneliness of Shoshone and Death Valley was more than welcomed after Las Vegas.