And we are off!
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Gene and Arlene, Michael's parents, are accompanying us on part of our trip. |
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Me, packed and ready to go. |
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Michael packed and ready to go! |
We pulled out of Grantsville headed over to Tooele and then
turned south. Stopped for coffee at Vernon and then crossed over the hills into
Eureka. Gene and Arlene were leading the way, and I was second, with Michael
bringing up the rear.
All of a sudden, I
see a black object fly out of the back of Gene’s bike. It looked like a glove,
but it was so fast, I wasn’t sure. I pulled over as soon as I could and told
Michael something flew off their bike (they are still moving forward, unaware).
Michael circled back and glanced at the object and saw it was a sock; assuming
that instead of flying off the bike they must have run over something in the
road, and kicked it up. Not wanting to pick up a strange sock in the middle of
the road, he opted to ignore it and we caught his parents later up the
road.
Turns out it was Arlene’s sock. In
a hurry to leave the house in the morning, she accidentally grabbed them off the
dresser, thinking they were glove liners rolled up. When she got cold on the
bike and realized they were socks, she was attempting to put them on anyway,
when the wayward sock got away.
We rolled into Santaquin for lunch at The Family Tree. The temperatures
were colder than Alaska and Michael was regretting not bringing his heated gear.
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Santaquin stop for lunch. |
My heated grips work on my BMW, so I was doing okay, but Michael blew out his
grips a while back and has not corrected that. We rolled into Rocky Mountain
ATV in Payson. Gene and Arlene added extra liners to their gear list (needed to
replace the sock) and we were off to Salina, Utah. Just as we rolled into
Salina, it started snowing. We pulled over and everyone put on another layer. I
only had one layer to spare and we still needed to cross over an 8300 foot pass
near Fish Lake. Brrrr. Arlene’s eyes
were getting bigger. Gene rolled with it.
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Snow in the air outside Salina, Utah. |
The ride went downhill from there (as the road went uphill).
The temperature started dropping rapidly, and soon we were riding at 32
degrees. The roads were wet, and there was ice fog cascading across the road. I
was leading, and dropped my speed to match conditions and elevations. By the
time we crossed at the top we were down to 45 mph. I did not want to find the
slick icy spot on the road. Snow was on the sides of the road.
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Gene helping Arlene with more layers. |
We rolled into Torrey, Utah. We went straight to the Torrey
Schoolhouse B and B. Arlene and Gene
were shot. We got them inside and offered to go find food and bring it back to
them. After calling around we all decided chicken soup and strawberry
shortcakes would do the trick. Michael and I added schnapps to the menu. Not
camping.. but close enough.
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Arlene at the end of the day.. expressing how cold it was... |
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