We left Moab this morning by the "River Road", route 128. It
runs through this deep cut canyon along the Colorado River. This
could quite possibly be the most spectacular section of road we have
cycled on this trip. For most of the road we were surrounded by
majestic red cliffs that rose straight up. The fabulous scenery
lasted for about thirty miles.

What a fitting way to leave Utah. A state were Gail got to ask
"Hey,what's wrong with this wine?"

We then climbed up to the Mesa, and cycled on to Cisco. For those of
you who are following the original itinerary, you are probably
wondering why we are not in Cisco right now. Cisco is a ghost town.
We knew that, but we were told that the General Store would be open
this time of year, and the owner (the crone) said we could camp on
her property. Well, even the General Store was not open when we got
there, so we decided to push on to the next available town.

Unfortunately, that was another forty-five miles away, and today
turned out to be another near century, with over six thousand feet
of climbing, but it is all good training for the Loveland Pass that
is coming up shortly. To add to the extra miles today, we had a head
wind for most of the afternoon.

Other than the wind, the weather has been great, and looks good for
the next few days. Tomorrow we head for Grand Junction which is only
twelve miles away. We have not decided if we will stay there, or
push on. There is a big bicycle festival in Grand Junction tomorrow
with parades, and activities, so we will have to see how much of it
we want to stay there for. Ken's daughter lives in Grand Junction and
we can use the facilities there, so it will be tempting to spend
some stay, if just to do laundry.

I am again on battery power, so I will have to cut this short. To
date we have cycled 957 miles, and climbed 52,663 feet.