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All of this occurred within 30 miles f my house - but I never saw any of'em. Bummer - wish I had.

Continuing drought in Southwestern US and over-extraction of water by California, Nevada and New Mexico. Those states face a real water crisis if their populations don't start shrinking soon. The Colorado River, which feeds Powell and Lake Mead, barely flows now and the Lakes are at 26% of their former levels. I have no idea what the solution is, but the Southwest is just about out of water.

I hear ya - did northern Maine and back in a week last summer - a lot of long days in the saddle.

Canada isn't far away and we do trips like this 5-6 times per summer - you're welcome to tag along on one. That is, unless your TOTY status prevents your passing the border scrutiny to enter the USA.

Forgot to post a video link to this location. Nice place to drive a truck! See:

I think he wadded it up on the twisty roads. By the looks of it, it rolled down the hill a bit as the top of the tank was messed up, missing seats, crushed from the top down, etc.

No more riding until next year now - should get the bikes back out in May or June for some more rides and ride reports.

Our final day has us climbing back into the mountains - and the cold - back to my house ....

Arrived at the hotel after dark - the view was better the next morning ...

Hauling ass across the desert is one of my favorite things; cruising along at 100+ mph with no traffic is just fantastic ...

Enough fuckin' around, it's getting late again an d we need to get humping for a hotel. Naturally, the weather popped up again and we took refuge from the lightning strikes in an old, abandoned gas station in the middle of nowhere ...

Garmin thinks I'm in the water ..

A bit desolate ..

Riding to the docks

That's a boat dock across the valley - no longer in water ...

Lake Powell in the background. Same spot with 20 years difference between the pics. The Lake will be gone soon ...

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Now it looks like we're on Mars. Not a soul around to bother us ....

100 more miles and we're back into the red rock - lots of it ...

Further east and the landscape changes. Now we're into a n area full of diatomaceous Earth - loosely packed but not sandy. Kinda weird and Moon-like ...

Some ancient drawings on the cliffs outside of town . These are all over the southwest and amaze me for some reason.

Up at sunrise and headed to Moab. Hotel looked okay on the outside, but inside was a different story ...

We streak for the hotel but arrive after dark. Shitty Mexican food for dinner with some beers and we're good...