Getting Ready...

Some of the stuff that will make the trip. A nice exercise in being truly minimalist...well I have still managed to pack a bunch of stuff :)
Posted by Picasa

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mount Rushmore

Image
The roads that lead to Mount Rushmore....more than one way to get there. As Yogi Berra would have said, if you come to the fork in the road, take it. For everyone who has had a good laugh at his malapropisms, you should know that when he made the famous quote, the situation was that he was giving directions to get to get to his home in NJ and what he meant was that both sides of fork in the road actually lead to his house, hence the 'take the fork'. Guess being slightly less articulate has its downside :) 87 is Iron Mountain hwy, all you bikers out there, this is one of the coolest rides that I did on the trip. In the far distance, where the tree lines meet above the road is actually the monument...zoomed in shot below Nice road eh? It is on roads such as this that I missed my R1...hardly any traffic, a little narrow, road surface okay-ish Really nice details.....to give you some idea of size, each eye is about 11 feet across
Read more

The Ride Thus Far

I would need a whole lotta words to describe the ride, but, here is a shot at keeping it short. The loneliest hwy, hwy 50, is truly just that...great stretches of no traffic, very basic scenery, but good in a different kind of way. Great opportunity to let the mind go blank. I have decided that I don't like freeways, the 2-lane country roads that wind their way through varying scenery and small towns is my kinda thing. Asok, if you are reading this we should get up to Tahoe some time, nice roads there. Can't say it was fun after that and until I got to Zion. Zion to Bryce is really nice, a long dark tunnel (no lighting) and the kind of sheer drops and twists and turns that get the excitement quotient up. Bryce to Torrey is amazing! Zion was at 103 F, Bryce around the 80's and on the way to Torrey, I actually saw snow by the side of the road. That was probably the most dramatic swing of weather I had seen in one 6 hour stretch...I guess I got pasteurized along the way :) Tor...
Read more

Back on Track....

Image
So, although I haven't been very good with updating this here blogthingamajig, I have been having a lot of fun. After Aspen and a few places south of there, I headed through Colorado Springs, Denver...didn't stop in either of those places...and on towards Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park. For some reason, Denver seemed 'new', hard to put into word, but the roads, buildings and other things in a typically human infested city seemed cleaner and newer than I am used to in the Bay Area. I stopped for the night in a suburb of Denver called Westmininster. The next morning, I headed towards Rocky, it was a great ride the whole way through. Estes Park at the base of the park is kinda the town before you drive up the Rocky. The ride to the peak of the mountain, is in one, inadequate word, astounding. I hadnt been told by the folks at the visitor center all the little details that came as a pleasant surprise. For one, there are sheer drops on some stretches of the road, also that it...
Read more