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Today is a tough decision day I need to pick a direction....south or north....sigh.....
I did bounce outta bed albeit a bit creaky....socks scattered....they don't like surprises it seems. ... Got perdy'd up and went for breaky...walked into the dhotel breaky area.....for some reason.....ya no not today...there was a Denny's across the parking lot....I am going to go hi end this morning....the grrande slam.....why do they call them slams...I just want bacon n eggs.no slamming of them...just cooked......not trying to be picky.....took me maps...needed to pick a direction....Stared at the maps....k got to check out dead horse canyon..its north but not far ... I'll decide after that......
Ate, burped, packed up and hit the road....it was only about 15 mins to the turn off. Its actually Island in the Sky Park. They have such artistic names...granted they usually are pretty amazing out here....not been disappointed yet. Started to notice it was already gettin hot and it was only about 9......thats not good...it was 33......ick... ah well...off I went. The drive is about 20 miles to the end which is a view point of the Canyon. Kept expecting the Road Runner to show up and do that tongue thing....but no such luck....no one really on the road....soooooo off I went. it was a great road....switchbacks and lots of curves....I was having fun..till I got held up by a car and a truck.....now its solid double lines in the park.... I'm normally a law abiding citizen...but today...it seemed silly you could see for quite a ways and I'm on a bike takes about a tenth of a second to pass...so I slowly passed the first car...no problem....then I slowly passed the next truck....no prob.....I thought....then I saw a turn out...ahhh a view point...so I turned in to check it out.....so did the truck...I parked, the truck parked right behind me...I was busy taking stuff off took a look...OH OHHHHHHHH is the park ranger.....crappppp I thought they were supposed to drive officially marked vehicles.....
I grimaced.....hell it was a kid....nothin worse than gettin s*** by a kid sorta cop. Last time that happened he tried to recruit me LOL. So off he went first a big ole lecture about the double line thing....crapppppp...I nodded at the right spots....let me lower lip quiver a bit...said oops... "In Canada we do it differant (wink wink).... ya he didn't buy that...then he went on about speeding....all the people walkin around...dammmmm there was nobody... I really was lookin forward to seeing the Road Runner..but I couldn't even find him...or the Coyote.
So I lost count of how many times I heard about how bad of a person I was and how illegal my transgressions were....I just said opps Im'sorry....then I told him I needed to pass cause you were ruining my camera shot....(I had a video camera on the front of the bike)....he didn't like that either...crappppppp was about to reach for a few bills to pass his way, also eyeballed a big stick......no one was around...hmmmmmm......then he just kinda said...."lesson learned?" I nodded lip quivering and all said I'd never do that again...my left hand had fingers crossed so didn't count..... and he said have a nice day and have fun... I grinned.... I grabbed me gear and took in the view...really cool
It was an overlook of the canyon..holy crap amazing view...so I needed to get some hero shots...the things I do...I scrambled up a rock formation to set up a tripod with a timer... couple of older guys were looking on...they had gotten there before me. They wandered over kinda told me I was crazy.....seriousllllyyyy am I? Just wanted a picture.... crap...granted it was about a 2000 foot drop but it wasn't that bad....
Then a young couple showed up and you could tell they wanted to do a couple picture so I volunteered and set it up even set the flash to fill the front... they really appreciated that....People if you ever see a group of people with a camera trying to take a picture ... help em out only takes two secs of your life. The girl was from Poland...she wanted to take mine...so I let her.
What a view.... got going again....had my park ranger radar on...some fun turns but had to look ahead.... eventually got to the end of the road...
WOWWWW it's Utah's version of the Grand Canyon...amazing....so took it in took some pics....hard to leave but had to go...it was getting hotter......so rippied outta the park...no rangers....got to the highway.....decision time.....
I found a info hut and pulled out me map layed it on the ground...and stared....south looked good....but it was already 39 and only like 11.....sooooo I decided...I'll go back to Moab grab a cool beer adn think about it LOL.
Found a cool bar...had chilli cheese frys and a coooool beer....and stared at the map...reality kicked me in the nads.....its too freakin hot out.....so I decided to turn north....seems all roads lead through Salt Lake city....so off I went.
I managed to minimimize interstate roads. I found some fun roads....then the weather turned on me.....it started to pour...I stopped at a gas station to take shelter cause I didn't have my gear on. It was a nasty storm but moving fast but I saw more in the direction I needed to go..so I decided to get me gear on....works awesome but dang...in 33 weather....is hot......
So off I went I was in and out of major rain about a dozen times....and finally got to Salt Lake City.....was going to keep going but me neck started to knot up....then I hit a traffic jam .....looked to the right...hotels....hell with it...I'm done for the day.
Found the hotel jumped in the pool, hot tub, pool, hot tub, pool in that order then crashed............
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