Up at dawn… then we turned over and ignored it. So much for a 6am start. This was our first night of wild land camping so we crawled out of the tent and got to feeding ourselves and packing up. The landscape was Utah’s’ usual sand and brush. We shook the fine powder off our […]
Decided to sleep in this morning after our long, hot ride yesterday. It still seemed surreal what we did. So we got up late and messed around Green River doing some errands. Stopped at the John Wesley Powell Museum, where we at least watched a great movie about exploring the Green River & Colorado rivers.
The distance from Salina, UT to Grand Junction CO is 205 miles and there is only one town between the two for water, Green River. This town also happens to be close enough to the middle to be called that. Steve wanted to break up the ride in thirds, using Green River as a provisioning
After a long day yesterday and our expectations of hot weather today, we set our alarm for 4:30am. Hopped up in the morning and started getting ready then we noticed that 2 things were out of place: the sky was brightening and the guys on the motorcycles we spoke to yesterday were up and on
Early start (still late in Curt’s book), alarm at 4:00 out before 4:45 am. Guess the delayed start may have been part breakfast and part Cyndy’s trepidation about travelling in the dark. Come to find out it was really a good thing… lighting worked well and by the time the sun had risen and we
The weather is warming up for the next 3 legs, so up at 5 and out the door at 5:45. Had nice cool start while we followed the rolling valley bottom south for 20 or so miles. Stopped for a snack break 12 miles out at an elk viewing spot. Like so many other wildlife
No alarms this morning, slept until 8 and tried to ignore reality a bit longer. But Cyndy was hungry and there was no stopping her. So after a couple of grunts Steve was up too and we rode off to The Big Apple (not NY) for breakfast. Good eats and nice folks. Then off to
Wow, what an unremarkable day. We rolled out of bed around 6am and ran down to eat at the continental breakfast provided by the motel. Stuffed in as much as we could then stuffed a little bit more into our bags (Shhhh, don’t tell anyone"). Ran back to the room, made sandwiches, packed up and
We knew today was going to be long so for the first time on this trip we set an alarm. A brief negotiation, surrounding the breakfast place hours, resulted in a 6:15 wake up setting. As you would guess the alarm went off much too early and we did our best to ignore it. Before
Last night at Cold Springs around dinner time the wind laid down and I off handedly questioned “what happed to the wind” because the breeze was pleasantly cool. Well, I got my wish about 10 minutes later when a north east breeze freshened to about 15-20. I didn’t think much more about it believing that
