The Black Hills Trek



THE TREK BEGINS (CAL/NEVADA)

Pics of Black Hills Trip

Top - Sonora Pass, Ca.
Center Left - Extraterrestrial Hiway to Area 51
Right - Tonapah, if these look familar its because we retraced our Missoula
route for a day and a half so sis Ann could see Area 51 and the Little "AleInn".
Lower Left - Abandoned ranch with rock corral


UTAH

Pics of Black Hills Trip
Top - Red Rock Canyon
All Rest - Bryce Canyon, it was spectalular, better even than the Grand Canyon.


NE UTAH

Pics of Black Hills Trip

Top - Breakfast and travel advise from a retired coal miner and his wife.
Left - Going up, getting cold, stopped to gear up.
Right - Dinosaur National Park Quarry, glad these critters are long dead, they looked nasty.


NE UTAH

Pics of Black Hills Trip

Top - A strip mine fired a blast just as we rode by, I would have swore someone was firing 8 inchers at us. I almost wet my pants.
Left & Center Rt - Flaming Gorge and dam on the Wyoming border.
Bottom - Last nice rest stop for a while


WYOMING/SOUTH DAKOTA

Pics of Black Hills Trip

Upper Left - Southern Wyoming was desolate and cold. This was one of the few nice spots there, a wildlife refuge
Upper Right - South Dakota at last.
Lower Left - A old bank in Custer.
Lower Right - Two wooly mammoths.


BLACK HILLS

Pics of Black Hills Trip

Top - The Crazy Horse Monument & me, 2 works still in progress
Center - The Needles Hiway
Bottom - Mt. Rushmore


WYOMING HEADED BACK

Pics of Black Hills Trip

Upper Left - Yellowstone, just before we were turned away from east Gate (roadwork). Rode around to North entrance
Upper Right - Devils Tower, a rainy day
Center Left - A herd of elk surrounded by a bunch of dumb animals with cameras
Bottom - The best little German restaurant in Idaho, where else ya gonna stop on BMWers.


IDAHO/NEVADA

Pics of Black Hills Trip

Top - Craters of the Moon
Center - A neat little rest stop on the Nevada Border
Bottom - A breath taking sunset, the pic doesn't do it justice.


NEVADA/CAL

Pics of Black Hills Trip

Upper Left - After Sis had stomach problems they opted for the freeway home, I headed for the dirt roads, a R100GS freeway.
Upper Righjt - The pony express trail, I wanted to ride it in the worst way but my map didn't show it and I chickened out.Maybe next time
Center Right - Giant sand dune just outside Fallon.
Bottom - A nice river going up the Ebbetts pass in the Sierras, still didn't get my fly lines wet.


HOME

Pics of Black Hills Trip

Top - Catching my breath after very large truck almost flattened me on Hiway 4.
Center = A lovely mountain lake where I stopped for a smoke to contemplate the universe and to gauge how often the trucks were coming down the road.
Bottom Home with the German mistress(BMW GS) and the rest of my lovelies.



NEXT YEAR

Am already thinking about next year. My plan is to ride to Michigan by the fastest route and visit my relatives. Then, up into Canada for the ride home. On the return leg I will dawdle and take all the back roads I can find. Will drop down into Montana via Glacier. Then back down thru Idaho (can't decide if I like it or Eastern Utah better). Then over the Sierras and home. I can't wait

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