Day 5 - a plan gone to heck
Wake up early, real early...rain again
Put off the inevitable
Snatch a quick breakfast of a cliff bar, pack up my crap and roll my sodden tent into a heap and stuff it into it's bag and finally head off to see the North rim of the Grand Canyon
Ride the last couple miles to the gate, pay my 12 bucks and make my way to the lodge area - another 12 miles or so
Pull in to the parking lot and get an awesome picture from the particularly nice vantage point
head over the the lodge for a coffee and second breakfast - wish I'd taken a pic of the nice breakfast burrito and green chilli's....really yummmm
Leaving the lodge I take another pics thru the loge windows as it's really cleared up
Done with the canyon I head out for the 80 mile ride back to town...wow what rain, no bugs were left on my bike after that
From Kanab I head over to Zion NP where it is a bit drier, but of course drier is relative
Now the plan, such as it was, is to head back thru Zion and up 89 and 12 to overnight around Freemont Junction so as to make my way up to Steamboat the next day
Some of the biggest blackest clouds I've ever seen are now to the east so I wuss out and run over to I15 and beat feet North to I70 where I head East again...thru rain that makes what I rode thru coming out of the Grand Canyon seem like a light mist
Finally get out of the worst of the rain around Grand Junction. I70 may suck but the scenery is really nice - totally roadrunner/coyote land
Exit the interstate and head down 191 and overnight in Moab where I dry my tent, shower and do laundry.