Depart Phoenix at 8:00 - 8:30 am, mechanicals keep us in the valley until 12:30 the "departed" on the highway and the rain storm delay us even farther, we finally hit Flagstaff around 3:00 in the afternoon. What should have been a nice 3 - 3 1/2 hour ride took us 7 hours! Finally we arrive in Flagstaff, it's a quick dash throught the city to get us to the north side of town. Time to fuel, grab a quick drink & snack and reset our plans.
Trashing our original plan of trying to make Moab that evening was our first order of business. As planning hadn't worked very well for the group so far we decided that we would ride as hard and as far as we could, or until our wives decided that we needed to call it good for the day.
I have to hand it to the laies in the group - each and everyone of them earned their stripes on this trip. My wife had NEVER been on a road trip longer than a 3 or 4 hour ride to our destination (and of course the return trip back). On this trip, day one, she'd already been through more than she's ever experienced on motorcycle and she's still smiling. Remember, it's only day one and the fatigue of riding mile after mile hasn't set in yet.
Being around three in the afternoon we figured we had another 4 or 5 hours of riding the white linesfor the day - max - and then we would be cooked. This should put us someplace on the north side of Monument Vally - where? We weren't quite sure of that but we knew we had to go through Mexican Hat, Bluff and Montecello. Montecello would have been the ultimate destination but was looking more and more unlikely. Hell, for that matter so was the north side of Monument Valley!
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Phoenix, Monument Valley, road trip, riding the white lines
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