motorcycle adventure touring
2.1 might be over stating it for our pint sized addition. JoJo is a new addition to the family and until now we have left our furry friends at home with family while we travel. Kingsley, our beloved Lhasa Apso, has a new little brother. When we say little, we[…]
Childhood Dreams Ever since I was kid in high school, I have been mesmerized by the Anasazi Indian Ruins. I remember having posters of the cliff dwellings on my wall. I always dreamed of visiting this place that to me was so far away it might have well have been[…]
Highway 163 The area around US Highway 163 is an amazing assortment of dramatic roadways and incredible landscapes. Such was our experience through this classic area. We combined the Mokai Dugway (a 1,200 foot, near vertical descent down the face of a vibrantly colored sandstone cliff), Goosenecks State Park, and[…]
Dead Horse Point State Park Dead Horse Point State Park is another of the wonderful Utah state parks in a state that is rich in natural and human history. We hadn’t even heard of this park until we got closer to it during our trip to Arches National Park. With[…]
In motorcycling from San Diego to Colorado we toured many wonderful places and went through deserts, plateaus, salt flats, petrified forests, mountainous landscapes and hoodoos. Throughout our travels we discovered a large variety of desert flowers. Below are a few of our best shots from our travels through the Mojave,[…]
Arches National Park There are more than 2,000 documented arches in Arches National Park! With so many arches it’s impossible to see them all of course, but you can spend a few days seeing some highlights. The park has good roads to take you close to many of the most[…]
Capitol Reef National Park Capitol Reef National Park is one of five incredible national parks in Utah. Capitol Reef is known for high towering cliffs and the amazing Waterpocket Fold. The name of the park comes from the white domes of Navajo Sandstone reminiscent of the Capitol Building in Washington[…]
Two Up Riders live in the best city in the world, San Diego! We also live at the end of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (the one Maverick was sent to for Top Gun training in the movie). We often see F-18s, Hueys, C-130s, and Ospreys fly overhead. We’ve even[…]
No one can deny that some of the best national parks are in Utah. Utah is blessed with dramatic desert landscapes and scenery that are unrivaled anywhere in the world. Above we rest our weary feet after a long day on the motorcycle at the log cabin communal fire pit,[…]
Bryce Canyon National Park Bryce Canyon is the highest of the five steps in the Grand Staircase that starts down near the Grand Canyon with the Chocolate Cliffs, goes up to Vermillion Cliffs, then the White Cliffs as seen in Zion and along UT-12, the Grey Cliffs along UT-24, and[…]