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Day 11 may be found here. Up at the break of dawn. Bruce texts that he is on his way. It’s a long enough drive from South Fork that I decide to hike down and check out Point of Rocks in the background. There have been at least three bridges...Read more

Day 10 may be found here. The crack of dawn finds me already making breakfast. I break camp and head out to redezvous with Bruce at the turnoff to Powderhorn, which will take us on to the heart of the San Juan Mountains. The next two days will be a...Read more

Day 9 may be found here. Up at the crack of dawn again. I eat breakfast, break camp, pack up, and start out. The low tire light comes on again. Crep. I check with my gauge; it’s quite low (though far from riding on the rims; I can make it to...Read more

Days 6 and 7 may be found here. I am up early, eat breakfast, say goodbye to Lori, and head out. The low pressure light comes on again on my left rear tire; crep. I stop to top off my gas and refill the tire. Well, it took two days for...Read more

Day 5 may be found here. Today is Bear Lake Day. My parents grew up in the Bear Lake Valley and so it’s traditional, when possible, to spend a day at the lake during our reunion. The low tire light comes on in my car when I start the engine. Crep....Read more

Day 4 may be found here. I’m up early; the house is still fairly quiet. I decide to quietly cook my usual pancake breakfast, then clean up my dishes and the rest of Lisa’s kitchen. Alas, that does not quite work out. Tim, their third son, emerges halfway through my...Read more

Well, not completely different. While Gary is not Bruce and is not family, he’s gotten to be a good friend. And if we’re not looking at geology in Utah and Colorado, we are looking at geology back home in the Jemez. The posts on my annual out of the Jemez...Read more

Day 3 may be found here. I am up again in time to make a good breakfast. My sister’s entire family are chocolate connoisseurs; when I notice Robert eying my chocolate pancakes, I decide to leave him a serving’s worth of mix so he can try one for himself. Then...Read more

Day 2 may be found here. After an excellent night’s sleep, I awake and start making myself breakfast: steel-cut oats, chocolate pancakes, bacon and eggs, buttermilk. The oats have ground flax added and the pancake mix is a whole-grain, protein-fortified mix to which I add inulin. This seems to make...Read more

Day 1 may be found here. First light. I discover that neither of the two frying pans I thought I had packed actually made it on the trip. Breakfast is limited to oatmeal and buttermilk over brain cereal. And it looks like the oranges didn’t make it, either; so much...Read more