Chuck's Adventures: Biking A Scenic Byway

Friday, August 29, 2008

Biking A Scenic Byway

For a less strenuous day, we biked 22 miles today on the flat, paved Potash Road (aka Highway 279), a designated Scenic Byway, and it lived up to its billing. The views were wonderful as the road nestled between the Colorado River and high red cliffs, as seen below...

An added bonus was Jug Handle Arch right along the highway...

... as well as these petroglyphs completed by the San Rafael Fremont culture as far back as 600 A.D.

Huge white lilies abounded alongside the roadway, including this one with a busy bee at work...

Once again the temperature rose from 78 degrees to 93 during our 2 hour ride. Then it was off to our motel to pack for tomorrow's start of the canoe trip.

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Adventure begins where your comfort zone ends.

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Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
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Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!
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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.
--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.
--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner
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