My trip to the National Norton Rally.
When you're on the road solo for a week, you often contemplate the more inane things in life, like...who in their right mind would smoke these things? A grape White Owl?
But on to more scenic views from this trip. After a night in Prescott, it was on to Torrey, Utah where the rally was held. As you go north past Monument Valley, which you've all seen in some John ford movie, I headed up the Moki Dugway out of Mexican Hat, Utah. Looks like it's going to be a steep climb.
But the view is worth the dusty road once you get to the top.
A ways further up the road, you cross a bridge near Lake Powell. It's a lonely road where I didn't see a car for nearly 20 miles, but I guess somebody has to use it and it might as well be me.
After setting up camp and getting settled in, the next day I went for a ride out of a little town called Boulder, which was appropriately named. I get to ride down this road? Yeehaw! You wouldn't believe how gorgeous those rocks are.
Of course I had to take a money shot with the bike parked in the middle of the road once I got down into the meat of it.
After 30 miles of paved road with scenes like this one...
...the road finally turned to dirt and dropped down into Capitol Reef National Park. Yep, another steep dirt road. At the bottom though it turned to deep sand, so I had to turn around. Could have used a dual sport bike for this ride.
...to be continued with actual Norton motorcycles.
