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Road Trip!
2007.05.02
Determination Towers - Bike in bottom left
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Determination Towers - Bike in bottom left
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Below the Gemini Bridges
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Below the Gemini Bridges
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White Rim Road above the Green River
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White Rim Road above the Green River
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A bit higher this time, overlooking the Green River from White Rim Rd.
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A bit higher this time, overlooking the Green River from White Rim Rd.
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Ooops!
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Ooops!
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Rose Garden Hill - A KLR has no business on this one!
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Rose Garden Hill - A KLR has no business on this one!
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These are from the archives. A few years ago when I still had my bike, I was itching for some adventure and thought some time riding around Moab, Utah, would do me some good. On that thought I loaded the bike on a trailer and headed off and spent 5 days in Moab just following my front wheel around. Totally amazing trip and I still get goosebumps whenever I think about it.
Anyone who knows Moab and KLR's may find it interesting that I got that beast of a bike to the far end of Porcupine Rim and back, Steelbender Pass, and a whole bunch of places that I can't remember the names of anymore (Golden Spider Mesa trail??? I think the pic of the bike on it's side is from that). I almost rode off the edge of the Gemini Bridges, stopped short by just a couple of feet. When I sold the KLR it still had the pucker marks on the seat from that.
What's funny is after getting back from this trip, the KLR wouldn't start, so I charged it, rode it to work, and it was dead again. So I boosted it, got it back home, pulled the battery and since it was so hot in Moab it boiled all the fluid out of the battery!!! I can't imagine going to start the bike in the middle of nowhere and finding it dead. I think I'd push it over a cliff and file a stolen bike report ;)
Pics were taken with a fixed lens Fuji P&S film camera with the pics scanned on some el-cheapo no name flat bed scanner. Good times!
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Those are great. I have to do a trip like that one of these years. Good for the soul.
You gotta go Blur, you're absolutely right about being good for the soul. I'm usually somewhat of a high energy person but for months after coming back from that trip I was soooooo laid back everyone that knows me commented on it.
