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The Longest Ride.

From Santa Fe to Monument Valley is around 350 miles. We were trying to get ahead of the next front of lousy weather that was heading our way. The morning’s ride was one of the best yet, up into the mountains north west of Santa Fe.


This was at the gas station, unbelievably it was a runner. Held together with Gaffer Tape.


It was cold, really cold and around midday we had to stop for a coffee. We pulled into a tiny little shack and I were really welcoming , they wanted to know where we’ve been and where we were going etc.

Jorg got into a conversation with the old people at the next table and asked;

“Is it true what I’ve been told, that every other person has a gun in areas like this”?

The woman at the next table looked slightly embarrassed, I could see it coming and she replied;

“No, everybody has a gun”.

We all laughed. He then moved on to ask about Trump. It’s been a constant interesting quest. The jury seems to be out the general consensus seems to be ‘all is forgiven if he gets the economy going’.

When we left the woman that ran the café/restaurant wouldn’t accept any payment, saying;

“You’re visitors, you’re our guests, it’s on us, no problem”.

How good is that? It wouldn’t happen in a city.

It was a fabulous ride down towards Kayenta where the road flattened out and we ran into a sand storm. It looked like an eerie orange fog. The sand was painful if it hit any part of your face, we pulled up our buffs to get as much coverage as possible.

When we got to Kayenta, my satnav took me to the wrong place again despite having input the right road and number but we eventually found the hotel.

We concluded that over 350 miles is too far on a bike in one day. I prefer around 250 miles. We’ve done various 350 mile legs, but it’s just not as pleasurable.

No sand in this pic but there was plenty of it.

 

Trying to do catch up with this. Riding all day and writing this is a challenge. I think of things to write in the day then forget it all when I come to write it, which seems to take place at night.

Sleep deprivation but I’ve slept well the last couple of nights hence getting behind with the updates.

It’s been eventful.

 

I have been thinking about it but I’m afraid pretty much all of it hasn’t been worth photographing, which sounds damming. We’ve had some good meals but I wouldn’t say spectacular and worth getting my phone out for. Sorry.

 

I don’t know about mastered it but I managed to mount a GoPro to the right hand mirror with electrical tape, more of that later because there’s more important things to post.

 

I will post up these pictures from Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon and fill in about events later because there’s been an event that was so spectacular it cannot wait and I need to catch up.

 

The Good the Bad and the Ugly.




Monument Valley was spectacular, but unfortunately we were also spectacularly unlucky that it was rain, rain, rain. With some hailstones as well no less.

For some reason on this blog the video makes it look a lot brighter than it was. It was dark, dank and miserable and the clouds just sat on top of the monuments.

Pedro had the music lined up for his leg. It was perfect and made me laugh. I’ll attempt to post a video of it later.

There’s a 17 mile dirt track tour that you can do around the valley, we were never going to do that on these beasts, whatever the weather.

We will definitely have to come back to this one.