Plans Don't Change, Plans Evolve. Sometimes In A Circular Fashion.

When We left Escalante I wanted to go a few miles, drop the trailer and set up camp. Then run back a ways and ride the Burr Trail Road, it's supposed to be a great motorcycle road. We stopped for breakfast at the Burr Trail Grill in Boulder. Looked at the menu, no bacon, no sausage, organic eggs, $10.00 French Toast $3.50 for a cup of coffee. Must be some place better down the road, right? Yup, far down the road. In Torrey. So I put Burr Trail Road off until the next time I'm here. I wanted to camp in Goblin Valley, a Utah state park. Stopped in Hanksville and got gas and groceries. Turned down the road to Goblin Valley and right away there is some road construction going on. Talked to the flagman about the conditions, he said no problem, just stay in the traveled part of the road. Went ahead and the front wheel started floating around, in and out of the ruts. Then the rear wheel started fishtailing at the same time. I stopped before I dumped it, when I tried to get going again the rear wheel sunk in the sand. So we unhooked the trailer Linda pushed the bike and we got unstuck then turned everything around and got out of the construction zone. It turned out that they just tore the road out that morning and watered the sand down. Good thing they didn't do that when we were in the park. So Goblin Valley will have to wait for next time also. By then we were close to Interstate 70, No problem, we'll just camp at Arches, my favorite National park. We came to the park gate and Linda saw a sign that said “Campground Full”. Now were are camping on Utah Route 128, the great road with all the campgrounds along it, right beside the Colorado River. 1.5 miles from Moab and very close to Arches.

Circle completed. All is good.