Moab to Canyonlands National Park (UTAH)
We ride to our final destination of the trip, the Island In The Sky section of Canyonlands. We're both getting a bit sentimental by this stage. Our journey has flown by, part of us wants to keep it going forever, part of us is eager to get home to family and friends and sink our teeth into all that we want to do. The days ride is all constantly uphill, with standard Utah scenery: Buttes, Mesa's, rock, canyons, although it's all on a smaller, faraway scale. Both of us are lost in thought for the most of it.
After a late start to the day (to let it warm up a bit to at least over zero degrees), and, now that the winter sun is setting around 5pm, we find ourselves riding pretty hard just to make camp before sunset. There are strangely no facilities in Canyonlands, not because things have seasonally shut down like seemingly everything else America-wide at this time of year, but just because for whatever reason there's no water/food/electricity/lodging available, even the visitor centre's closed. Anyway we make it right on sunset, set up camp, woof down one of Ada's great little cooking creations (re-fried beans and cheese dip with tortillas), and because it's already well below zero we simply get in our sleeping bags and call it a day. It's 6pm.
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