Monday, June 13, 2011

Annual Motorcycle Trip

Each year we have gone on a 4 day motorcycle trip with friends.  Year one:  Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota.  Second Year:  Durango, CO.  This year: Moab, UT.  
This year we did over a thousand miles in 4 days.  Lots of fun, lots to see and do, lots of tired.  I fell and almost killed myself the first year at Rushmore.  Since then I have been VERY careful even with all the climbing.  The only issue for 2011 was the water weight gain that will take a few days to get rid of.


This is the entire group 2011.  Siebs, Redmons, Kings, and Ottleys.  Thank you nice tourist lady for offering to take our picture.


We decided the "boys" were an average of 11 years old when they got together.  John was the worst, then Robert.  I think Vaughn was happy that Cari didn't "allow" him to do all the crazy climbing because he really didn't want to do it that much.  She is an easy alibi.  Terry took it a little easy because he had a cold and also the one bad eye.  John really pushed the limits and Robert encouraged him.  Typical. This is a great picture of them in a calmer setting.

Robert climbed up to a corner of one of the Windows arches in Arches National Park.  Easy hike and great view.

Also at Windows Arches.  I think it's a good picture of us.  

Delicate Arch from a couple of miles away. I love telephoto lenses.  There is a .75 mile hike to take that is easy for viewing the arch and we didn't have to take a quart of water to drink either.  Although a bottle of water each was pretty much necessary.

In trying to be a little artsy I took this tree picture.  I might print it in black and white.  I aspire to be an Ansel Adams!

White Rim Canyon behind me.  Beautiful in person.  The canyon, I mean.  :)

Newspaper Rock with our traditional we-took-it-ourselves picture.

Holy Mackerel!  $6.50 a gallon with a minimum of $15 per credit card charge.  I learned that it actually against the law to put a minimum charge for credit cards.  Cari is writing a letter to Visa.  This was a rip-off place in the middle of no where outside of the Needles portion of Canyonlands.  They had us over a barrel.

The hotel was pretty bad but do-able.  We should have started getting reservations in January instead of May.  If we had had children with us it would have been REALLY bad because children get on the floor.  We, at least, keep our shoes on.  Also when the air conditioner compressor turned off it sounded like ice falling into the plastic container in the freezer.  Being Moab in summer the a/c was on all night.  So the ice cube tray noise went on ALL NIGHT.  Thank goodness we were exhausted and only heard it occasionally.  

I might post a few more pictures later if there are some interesting ones to view.

I am super happy to be home though.  I came home really anxious to get busy on the house some more.  

That's a good vacation!

2 comments:

Beth said...

Looks like fun. Bunch of teenagers!

Jan said...

Yes, we are in our second childhood, guess.