Superfunkomatic - Observations of the Socially Inept

Total Kilometres: 491 (305 Miles)
High/Low Temp: 22 celcius (that’s the ‘low’) and 34 (still perty hot)
Total Riding Time: 11:00am MST - 8:30pm MST

got up and was ready to go at 8:00 this morning. i tried to get in touch with a couple of local guys and had no luck and ran out of time last night. well, hurricane is a small town and they saw my bike in the hotel parking lot. both fellers are also members of the vfrdiscussion.com website - achfly (andy) and spotto (gary) so we headed out for a tour of utah, and what was supposed to be a one day trip.

My fearless leaders, left Gary (spotto) and right, Andy (achfly).

andy’s family graciously had me and gary for breakfast - yummy french toast, and even sent us off with some treats - yummy cinnamon bread stuff, OMG!

Pepsi was certainly ready for a ride with Andy, not sure she’d be able to maintain that two-up position for long though

andy’s hound dog is a real cut-up. same name as my doggie len, her alias before she was adopted was pepsi as well.

Preparing the 3 nearly identical 6th generation VFR800’s for the trip

well it turns out it was more ground to cover than we were actually able to do.

i bought a national park pass for $80 so i can get into all the parks with one fee card now, rather than pay at each location.

first stop was zion national park, the beginnings of a day long adventure through canyons and the rocky crags of utah. there is so much stuff to look at and take pictures of that it can’t be done in a single day.

Right near the entrance to the Zion National Park

Another rock formation - Zion National Park

zion national park is only about 20 miles long, but you could spend days photographing all the interesting textures, colours and shapes of the geology of the region.

highways 9, 12, and 89 are a lot of fun to ride, all kinds of terrain and challenges along the way. and each of the stops has a multitude of photo opps.

rather than try and explain it i’ll let the pictures do the talking. this is day 11, i’m tired and need to do some laundry - i stink, everything is dirty. had a little dinner at ‘diablos’ a little haut-cuisine stop down the road a ways. delicious salmon dish with dill, chutney, cranberries and pestos, and other unidentifiable things - very yummy. we’ve split a room 3 ways and bunked down for the night. two more days until denver and washing and relaxing with my buddy kim.

Bryce Canyon - Hard to believe that this viewpoint is nearly 9,500 ft above sea-level

The Grand Staircase - miles and miles long, near Escalante, UT

Great off-the-beaten path side road near Bolder - Box-Death Hollow Wilderness Area, a small sideroad that runs at the foot of the canyon. With late day light this place is cool and kinda spooky at the same time.

At the bottom of Box-Death Canyon - the water churned away what looked like enormous ice-cream scoops full of sandstone.

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