Earache

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...

The rain falls, but evaporates so fast that you never really get wet ...

It's starting to get late and weather is rolling in on us again ...

Our private racetrack awaits ...

Back into Utah and the reason we came here - to ride some curves ...

Above Page, Arizona looking down on Lake Powell. It used to have much more water in it - look closely and you can see where the water level was a few years ago....

There isn't shit out here - 100's of miles of nothingness ..

Out of New Mexico and into Arizona and the Navajo Nation. Better watch our speed now so the Indian police don't get us. Nothing more fun than ticketing a white boy on a motorcycle if you're a Navajo cop ...

Next day and we're headed out into the desert. Saw another guy having a bad day ...

The road to our hotel is one of my favorites - twisty with lots of drop offs.. Apparently not everyone is a fan though ..

And in town, the deer were munching on the houses ...

Moose in the woods chomping on some wet grass ...

Started to cloud up so we attempt to beat the rains to the hotel ...