Grand Canyon Trip Day 5

Tip of the day: dirty clothes can make a good lumbar support when placed in a pocket of your lugage near your back.

Left Flagstaff at 7am today and headed south to Sedona. The run down the canyon was a blast! Started off rather cool, but by the time we got to the bottom at Sedona it was hot! We saw folks with umbrellas at 8 in the morning!

This picute is out of order, it is the Sunset Crater Volcano, we stopped to see it north of Flagstaff, there was lava flows, black sand, the whole nine yards!

In Sedona, we said goodbye to Ken. He was formerly from Joplin, but now in Texarcana, TX. He joined us in Amarillo to ride with old friends for a few days. Our ride was enriched in many ways by Ken. Hope to see him again some day.

Here is a shot outside of Sedona in Red Rock Canyon. From there, we headed north again. The cars tried to run us over on I-17. We could ride 80 mph and still too slow for them, they would come right up behind and tailgate us, cut into us, it was tense!

North of Flagstff on our way to Utah, we stopped to see the Wupatki ruins. These were aboriginal people who lived in this area almost 800 years ago.

The desert we rode through was so harsh, so hot! I was glad that I always bring a small cooler on my bike with some cold water. A person wouldn't last very long out here if stranded.

In Utah, we rode through Monument Valley on our way to Bluff to stay the night. Utah wowed me, in that it is so big, vast harsh, and deserted. We had the roads all to ourselves--not many people live out here.

This is David and Carol, we were almost done, and we were pretty hot, dusty, and tired. The showers sure did feel good! We rode 359 miles today. Tomorrow we head into Colorado.