Contrast … now there’s a thing, we have found it wherever we went; different people: black, white, Hispanic; different living: big houses 🏡. , shacks and old rev trailers; scenery… flat, mountainous, desert, corn fields; rain and scorching sun ☀. Contrasts. The last 24 hours have been that, all different. Camped in American falls after […]
On the 24th July 1847, Briton Young a Mormon ( now the Latter Day Saint church ) led a group of pioneers into the Salt Lake valley ; there they stopped and settled to become the first people in Utah. That has some significance to us as today is the 24th July, the day Mick […]
It’s a mind thing, and the mind can be a funny place at times. Nevada, had not seen that one coming, once out of the Utah desert the mind was at ease to a great extent. No more vast tranches of wilderness…. wrong, I had not figured on Nevada and more wilderness Nothingness. Hot barren. […]
Those of a certain age will remember Rin Tin Tin the original K9 of the species. He could rescue anyone from anywhere. The TAT trail from Moab to Castle Deal comes with. Health warning ⚠, its 200 miles of nothing only desert, scrub and wind. And it’s hot. In trouble there it’s likely not even the […]
It can be difficult to get your head around it, the enormity of the land mass. Not something we are accustomed to. The lady in the dollar general store tells us she takes the kids, the grandparents and the dog to go shopping … a weekend trip. You look at the map; sure it’s only […]
In American terms Death Valley (!) is not too far from here … a little south. Never been there but can now understand the name. It’s roasting Hot again too hot, dangerous to ride between 1 and 4 pm at least. Taken the advice, parked up. We pulled in after 229 miles yesterday with what […]
She coughs and splutters a bit just to let me know we are at 13000 feet plus. Winding up and down the alpine valleys joined by the never ending Rock strewn hairpin bends…. its slow, technical riding. There were times I wondered if a few more CCS would help, particularly on the long Oklahoma dirt […]
We have been waiting now for a bit, longer than a nature break would normally take. In the forest 9000 feet up and no sign of Simon. There is sort of a pattern, Mick rides out front he is 100 % on navigation and can travel faster, Simon goes behind he has no Nav kit […]
Betty runs the pumps at the local gas station in Liberty city (if you can call it that); she informs us he grandfather came from Dublin and like all Irish Americans wants to visit with him to ‘home ‘. He we told us 92 do better they get a move on me thinks. Liberty is […]
Sometimes there are surprises and then more surprises. Prohibition ended a long time ago, just no one told the good people of Arkansas. We have a cold beer every evening when we stop. But Arkansas is a dry county. No beer, no . No one told us that. It’s 2017; the USA is not the […]