Saturday, November 10, 2007

Heading east ?

Well being we are so close to Grand canyon , I thought we had better check it out while were down this way. We visited Lake Mead, then camped the night at valley of Fire, could not see the valley as we got in after dark , but in the morning it was amazing.. I will try to post some pctures soon as i figure it out ! Valley of fire is a small area but do neat red rocks of sand stone and scuptured by wind and rain ... over to the townof Mesquite afterthis and over the Mtn range heading south to Grand Canyon , met up with some locals whom asked how we found this road ,, we told them good ole GPS they were suprised , it was really rough and technical riding for the next few hrs , good work out. The rd then turned to dust and i had to stay back aways to avoid eating peacly's dirt . We arrived at Toweap in the middle of nowhere Grand canyon ... no tourists here , no busses , no facilities , no gaurd rails !! We walked up to the edge and looked 2oooft straight down, it was incredible ! We left the canyon at about 4pm and headed north to Kanab , which is just over the border into Utah. My bike started to act up on the way i could not go over 70km /hr , this was by far the dustiest part of our trip so far ! Peachly was behind so it was not problem for me , while driving i just missed hitting a horse doing about 60km /hr . It was running across the rd in front of me and i had to swerve and hit the brkes hard , holy shit ! Wild horses night time and dausty rds , a recipe to an accident , if my bike was not acting up i probably would have hit it . Anyways , solved the problem by washing out my airfilter, it was clogged with a fine dust ... cleaned it up , we did find about 3 - 4 bolts missing from peachly bike , 1 frame bolt, 1 rack/ carrier bolt, 1 exhaust bolt ,, went to the local bike shop and got replacements in the morning, I told him to use Blue loctite !

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