Bluff, Utah

It was another harder than expected day today,  but you can't complain about a ride across Monument Valley and being in the campsite by 4:00 p.m.   It got a little warm today it's now 87 degrees.   As usual the climbs were was harder than expected in the winds were not consistently at our backs.

 We had 2 interesting encounters  today. The 1st one was meeting a fellow cyclist Patrick from Irvine California. He started a week before us and is heading all the way to Boston.  We are following the same basic route through Kansas and I expect we may see him again. The 2nd was when we finally got to Bluff  a fellow at the side of the road handed a cold beer as we rode by him.  He was a fellow cyclist from Colorado.

Tonight we are camping, which is a nice change.   We had a Navajo Taco for dinner, which was excellent (think tostada on fry bread).

                            Home sweet home

                  Two good looking fellows in Monument Valley 

                Our first state boarder crossing 

                Monument Valley from 16,000' (courtesy of Deralds brother