Time to finally wrap up the story - last installment!
It was a fun stay in Denver and great to see some old friends and some new friends and to sit at the bar and drink a little and talk a lot! Maybe it should have been the other way around, but "someone" (you know who you are) at WFO9 in July had got me drunk even before the ending banquet and I was trying to not do a repeat.
Here is Brian and I getting ready to leave for home from the Denver Marriott.
Father and son shot..
Flashing a victory sign at Jan (who was taking the picture), before we rode off.
We had mapped out a northern route through the Rocky mountains, through Kremmling to Steamboat Springs on Hwy 40 and continuing into Utah.
The weather in Denver was overcast, but everyone kept telling us that it is just the smog backing up against the Rockies and it will clear up when you gain some elevation.
Boy! were they ever wrong! What a mess this portion of the ride would turn out to be. Not counting the traffic snarls due to a couple of cagers having driven into the cliff sides. It was quite a downpour, including hail at the mountain passes, clearing up at Steamboat Springs, I was planning on stopping and screwing around in Steamboat Springs but we were already way behind schedule and Brian wanted to press on with minimal stops!
I only got one picture at Steamboat Springs, a picture of a speed limit sign depicting both mph and kmph speeds.
Then we raced away back to Utah on Hwy 40, but signs of inclement weather were looming just up ahead.
Blew past Vernal, UT but didn't have the time to take a shot of the pink dinosaur, just this fly-by shot of some other dino's.
At Duchesne, UT we split off from Hwy 40 to Hwy 191. This was the favorite part of my ride back home. Hwy 191 is loads of fun!
But, you have to be careful, right at the summit of Hwy 191, there was a predator waiting to pounce. Fortunately for us, he was already busy feeding on a motorist he had just picked off.
Then on to Hwy 6 towards Provo.
It was along here that we passed a Coal power plant and what a surprise, it was actually generating power!
Then we passed some examples of the legendary wind power, but the damn things weren't spinning! Just sitting there having a good laugh at us...
We headed south and stopped for the night at Nephi, UT and ate at JC Mickelson's. I was hungry and I finished the biggest burger I have encountered to date...
It was the home stretch the next morning. Apparently it had not been raining in Provo and it was still fire season.
Then Brian remembers there were some historic charcoal ovens along our route, which was a bonus location on some previous rallies. So we start to head there...
Here we are. This was an interesting read and a testament to the enterprising spirit which built our great nation and made it the power that it is today.
We stopped at Major's place at the junction of Hwy 50 and Hwy 93, hoping for some good burgers - but alas the cooks had the day off.
Interesting place...
This one is for Bustanut! Daisy the long lost cousin of Dolly. Probably locked up in Bust's basement somewhere, Javier misses her!
Deprived of the yummy Major's junction burgers, we decied to stop at Hotel Nevada in Ely for a quick lunch.
This is also where we saw this fine specimen from Beautiful British Columbia...
It was a beeline for home from this point. Thanks for reading along, it has been a pleasure!
