OUT OF THIS WORLD literally describes every facet of the landscape we rode through today in Utah. It will take days for it all to sink in, once again. It was an unexpectedly long, intense 10 hour day, leaving Torrey around 9 and riding through Capitol Reef National Park, and back the same 35 miles because in our eagerness to see the park, we rode right past Junction 12 on the edge of town to take us back to route 89 to connect with route 9 leading us into (no temptation, I'm afraid, Ian is still married to only one wife) St. George, Utah. I thought Capitol Reef was spectacular, and then we rode through Boulder Canyon, and Dixie Forest, and finally Zion National Park. WOW. It just got more and more mindblowing as the day
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