Pictures below are on the Escalante highway and Bryce Canyon always a treat to see and ride.
Jerry, Frank and I will be leaving home Wednesday the 4th of September for our annual "Guy Ride". We will take in Utah, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota and Colorado for a total of 11 days of fantastic rides and scenery. I will try and post daily but may be having too much fun and miss a day or so.
My participation in the this ride is over. Andy is taking them back up into Utah, with a stop at the Grand Canyon, for the next 4 days ending in Hurricane, NV. John Parry will meet them there and take them across Death Valley and on into California where the trip will end.
We decided to ride down to my place so that the 2 Aussies cold put the new tires on that they ordered at Steve’s house last week. Brendans had cords showing all the way around.
I showed them downtown Prescott and the Palace bar while we waited for their tires to be mounted at a loval tire shop. Then checked the 2 of them into a local motel. Andy is staying at our house for the night
I’m done for the trip and Andy is taking the boys back up to the Grand Canyon and Utah for 3 more days before connecting with John Parry for their tour of California before storing their bikes and flying back to Australia.
A perfect weather day. Clear skies and not too cold in the morning and in the 70s in the afternoon. Caught highway 141 NW out of Cortez and rode it to Gateway, stopping at the hanging flume roadside historic site and on into Grand Junction where we had lunch with Darby and Alice. Then West on I-70 dropping down on 128 towards Moab. We cut off early and rode the La Sal loop aroind Moab and then 191 south to Blanding, UT for 2 nights.
Leaving there and running the Million Dollar Highway we saw aw inspiring views of the snow covered mountains that surrounded us.
In Durango I took the guys to the rail road museum and then had lunch at the balcony bar and grill. We had tour reservations at Mesa Verde for the Cliff Palace so no time to explore Durango. We made it to the 3:00 tour and I let the guys go it without me. The thought of climbing around the cliff dwelling at 7,000 feet didn’t excite me plus I had done it 3 times over the years.
Andy made it to Cortez before we did so the motel rooms were ready to go when we got there. Brendan had his first Mexican dinner in America.
