After Jerome, 89A continued its climb up around Mingus Mountain and the turns eased up to slightly faster 15 & 20 mph hairpins. Whoever designed Highway 89A was a genius! The road was always smooth and well marked and every turn was banked the right way to make it easy and pleasant to ride through especially on a motorcycle. Even though this was my first time on 89A, its great layout made it easy, and downright fun for me. So it was with great disappointment when 89A ended at Prescott Valley where it flattened out into this open sweeping road like many in Arizona and T-boned into State Highway 89. No more of the �A� designation. However, 89A said goodbye by leading me down into Prescott Valley via a series of beautifully designed turns S-turns marked 20 mph as if to say, �Come again why don�t ya!�
The beginning of State Highway 89 was kind of boring and I was going so fast it was all a blur until I hit the town of Prescott. Prescott, Arizona is a traditional American town with a main street lined with shops with the center of the town located around a government building. This building in Prescott is the Yavapai County Courthouse. The building was surrounded by a beautiful park lined with shade trees all around it. It was a scene right out of a Hollywood movie. In fact, a few films have featured Prescott as their back drop. I stopped to take some pics but I soon began to feel self-conscious. Every person in town was staring at me like I came from another planet. Those damn leathers! There was this one SUV filled with young people that passed by and every occupant in it were twisting their neck to take a better look at me and my Bandit 1200S! I really wanted to look around Prescott a bit more but I knew I had to keep moving. I still had many hundreds of miles to go. |
