Cycling West With Luigi...

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Luigi -- CyclingWest:
I have been getting on the bicycle early every morning, I have fought the winds of Kansas and Colorado, I have climbed the Appalachians in the East, I have tamed the Rocky mountains range in the West and I am where I want to be, right in the middle of the Wild West. Yes I will need time to analyze all the inputs that my brain has been getting. Now, however, I feel my body and my brain are as one. Of course they are, I have cycled here, I have cycled almost 4000 km to get this far, I relied on my legs, my heart and my lungs. Traveling on your own fuel represents a different type of means of transportation. It is an unusual feeling. It makes you vulnerable and invincible all at once. And it makes own what you do. I feel I own this country, I own the West because I fought for every mile to get this far and I belong on the road, at least until I go back to leading an ordinary life. I won't stop and I can't stop not even if I wanted to, I just wouldn't know how. The road keeps calling me every morning with a different voice, because every morning is a different challenge and a different scenery.

Envy. The good kind.



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Monument Valley, Mexican Hat and Goosenecks State Park...

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I fell in love with Goosenecks State Park. We arrived well after midnight on a moonless night, but the skies were blanketed with stars that faded just above the horizon. Everything else was black. Even on the way there the drive through Monument Valley was black, the only hint of a "monument" would be an ominous lack of stars.

The next morning Goosenecks was reveled with the rising sun.

I wish I were there now...






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A year ago today...

we left camp early to visit the Hoover Dam before the heat set in,

we were unsuccessful in avoiding the heat,

but the polifamily did get to see the new bridge under construction at an interesting time,

then we all looked at classic cars in Caesar's Palace,

some looked like bats to the Poliwogs,

and Ian found exhaustion.

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A year ago today...

the family lollygagged after wakeing in the cool of the spring mountains,







we drove the 30 minutes down to
the Vegas strip and found
the statue of liberty,

and a hot lost walk worried our car would be towed,

but that did not last long as
the kids had already made
friends back at the campground.







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A year ago tday...

polifrog and family warmed breakfast
in Cedar Breaks National Monument,

grabbed morning pics of poliwog Trey,

played in the flowers,

visited the overlook one last
time for a morning pic,

stumbled onto a Model T,

actually, we stumbled into a
2 mile high convention,

entered Zion National Park,

enjoyed canyon views from a bus window,

poliwog Ian posed,

the poliwogs waded in the river,

poliwog Trey explored,

while poliwog Ian conquered,

found a critter on a rock,

left Zion,

took an impressive interstate into Vegas,

and saw a tower on the Vegas strip.




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A year ago today...

the poliwogs explored Oak Creek Campground while waiting for breakfast,

the parents broke camp,

took in the beauty of an overlook with a biker,


unexpectedly stumbled into driving the spine of if a ridge into the Escalante Canyons,


stopped to view the path taken,



walked along a river hunting rocks,



did not leave Panguitch, Utah by way of HWY 89,



played in some mid summer snow,


enjoyed a Poliwife favorite, Cedar Breaks National Monument,


and set up camp in the Cedar Breaks Campground,




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A year ago today...

Polifrog and family awoke in a Polifrog favorite, Natural Bridges National Monument,

took a photo of Natural Bridges from Bears Ears,

posed between Bears Ears,

hunted for fossilized wood and other cool rocks,

crossed the Colorado River,

were surprised by Glenn Canyon's other-world feel,

found a stop-n-rob in a rock,

stopped to view the Fremont Indian
petroglyphs that chronicled
their spacesuit trials,

but only after stumbling into Capital Reef National Park,

got an awesome site next to a creek at
Oak Creek Campground in
the Dixie National Forest,

and cleaned and photographed our rock/fossil pickings for the day.





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A year ago today...

Polifrog family broke camp early,

enjoyed the quacking aspens we camped under,

poliwog Ian picked flowers for his mom,







we took one last picture of of Monticello, Utah at the foot of our mountain,

another picture was taken from the
back side of our mountain of
Canyonlands National Park,

entered Canyonlands National Park,

played on some Canyonlands rocks,

spotted some cool swiss cheese,

found some bacteria infested soil at
Natural Bridges National Monument,

hiked down to Sipapu Bridge,

then back out,

made long fellow shadows,

and said goodnight.

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