Whoops, got busy when I got home getting back into the swing of things and catching up with everybody. I left off here in Bannack State Park in Montana, where I discovered it’d be too cold to camp in Yellowstone, womp. Instead I adjusted my plans to rest for a day in Billings, and then head down to Estes Park, Colorado to meet Brad.

I took 34 into Estes Park which was this gorgeous canyon. It was pretty narrow though so my pictures didn’t really do it justice.

Well with an extra day to relax in the Bay Area while waiting on parts we successfully replaced my oil pan. We had a nice test ride up into the mountains above Palo Alto.

From the Bay Area I headed up the West Coast, and was able to make a quick scenic tour through Avenue of the Giants, a huge redwood forest that was really cool to drive though.

From the Grand Canyon I headed south, through Flagstaff and into Sedona. I knew that Sedona had some cool rock formations, but what I wasn’t expecting was to plunge into a small canyon through a series of hairpin turns over the course of a few miles. Sedona is a little tourist town nestled inside a small canyon, so the highway in from the north you ride between these beautiful red canyon walls. Sadly my pictures don’t really do it justice, I was more concerned with how technical the road had become.