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Yes, that washer is still on the porch!
2 years agohttps://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/chevy/vernal-altamont-ut/
Shoot - the link isn't going to go here. We stayed in Altamont in 2020, also searching for a backroads route. We failed, there was far too much truck traffic on our route from Roosevelt. 87 sounds better
This would have caught my eye. Also no longer there?
2 years agoI think I've read through this journal several times. It's always interesting to read someone else's take on my home territory.
I did not see that memorial today - that doesn't mean it wasn't there, 12 years later, just that I didn't see it.
There is an underpass just like this one out in the middle of nowhere, Navajo Nation, on a dirt road. When we drove through in 2020, the request was to not stop, COVID. Of course, all I could think about was making it all the way across the Nation without peeing. Finally, I couldn't stand it - I pulled over next to this underpass. I no more than assumed the correct position, pants down, than here came a truck, down that dirt road!
2 years agoThanks, Lyle.
The funny thing is that before that tour, I replaced my usual 32 mm tires for some slicker 28s.
And then proceeded to foolishly use them on a bunch of Colorado dirt gravel, for which they were ill-suited.
I've learned my lesson, though, and these days most of the time I tour on a Salsa Fargo mountain bike with much wider, tougher, heavier tires.
I'll echo Greg's comment, quite a nice journal and as you noted, looks like a pretty good ride too. Some big days too! Impressive , even more so on loose gravel.
3 years agoThanks. We made a brief visit back to Utah Valley in 2019, and the place seemed as strange to me as it did a decade before. Maybe even stranger. It's hard to explain to anyone who hasn't experienced it just how unsettling it is to be an outsider living in Utah Valley (aka "Happy Valley.")
3 years agoHi Jeff,
I, for one, thought your journal was interesting. In fact, it was so interesting that I felt I should come back to this page to tell you so.
When we stayed in Altamont in 2020 (cute little motel), the motel owner said there's 200 residents in town. I wonder how they ever managed to build the movie theatre. My photo looks very similar to yours. The flower shop (?) next door in 2010 was gone in 2020.
1 year ago