Friday, August 12, 2016

First day

Gooddog aka Clay showed up right on time at 6:00 am and after a little visit we took off for the mountains. We stopped in Flagstaff for breakfast then continued on to Kayenta where we turned North. Clay had never been by Monument Valley or over the Moki Dugway so we figured today would be a good day to do that. After stopping at the visitor center in Monument Valley we headed for Mexican Hat for lunch. Then a photo stop at the Mexican Hat rock formation.

 From there we rode over the Moki Dugway road where I had a slight mishap. While pulled over to look at the view I went to shift into first and one of the linkage screws holding my short shift linkage together fell out and my lever was dangling. Wow that would have been a disaster traveling down the interstate at 80mph. Fortunately I found the screw and with a little time to remove plastic I was able to reassemble everything good as new.

We continued through Blanding and Monticello and on to Cortez where we are holed up in a motel for the night.

Gooddog AKA Clay

Me Arizona Jim



Monument Valley

Clay
Jim

Mexican Hat right out of a Road Runner cartoon, meep meep

Headed for Moki Dugway, where does the road go?

Working on the shift linkage

Clay looking at the valley below


Darby's BBQ weekend

Well I'm off on another putt. This time just a long weekend ride to the Grand Junction, CO area to attend a BBQ put on by one of the K1600 forum members. I'll be riding with a K1600 rider from Arizona as far as Cortez today and then finish up tomorrow. It will be a good time meeting other forum members that I haven't met before.