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| Along Highway 130 |
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| 33 degrees at this summit |
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| "Look Out" cache on Hwy 36 |
A cold front had
moved in the evening before I departed Ivins.
Even so it wasn’t too cold in Ivins but that changed as I headed north
and gained elevation. I did have to ride the
Interstate to Cedar
City for about 50
miles. Just the other side of Cedar City
I exited the Interstate and got on Highway 130, a nice country road with almost
no traffic. I stopped for a cache soon
after leaving the Interstate but did not find it. I stopped for another one at the summit of a
pass with the same result. This was the
coldest part of my journey. It was 33
degrees and snow was on the ground but it had melted on the road. I stayed on what I would consider this same
road all the way to Eureka,
UT, although the numbers changed several times – 21, 257 and 6. I passed through Milford and stopped at Delta to gas up and
warm up.
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| Lunch in Tooele park |
At Eureka I veered northwest
on Highway 36. My bad luck on finding
caches finally changed and I picked up five along the way. After gassing up again I stopped in a park at
Tooele (pronounced too-willa) and ate my lunch. Although it was sunny and getting warmer it
was still a bit chilly.
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| Bonneville Salt Flats |
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| Newfoundland Evaporation Basin |
Eventually I got
to Interstate 80 and turned west toward Nevada. I was excited to cross the Bonneville Salt
Flats for the first time which the map says is the Newfoundland Evaporation
Basin. It looks like a white lake. At my next gas stop in Nevada I called Clint to let him know I was
going to be late getting to Gooding. I
knew this route would be longer but I hadn’t realized how much longer. I remember the last time I took the part of this route in
Nevada
heading to Clint’s it was late afternoon and the sun was directly in my
eyes. This time it was so late that the
sun didn’t bother me. It was about 9:00
o’clock by the time I reached Clint’s having traveled 626 miles. It was my longest day having been on the road
for about 14 hours. He had a mouth
watering pork loin ready for me and I was ready for it.
With a good
night’s sleep and breakfast under my belt I left Gooding about 7:00 the next
morning. I took the Interstate to Boise and for the first
time on the whole trip I had a nice tailwind.
I stopped at the BMW shop where I had purchased my bike last year and
got a replacement low beam bulb.
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| "Sukattuk Kuuk" cache near Banks, ID |
I took Highway 55
north out of Boise
and only stopped for a couple of caches on the way home as I was ready to be
home. I got home about 3:00 pm having
traveled 383 miles for the day. For the
trip I traveled over 4,000 miles averaging about 450 miles per day while
stopping to log an average of 8 geocaches per day. There were a few other stops for ones I
didn’t find. I would have preferred a
more leisurely trip but nine days is a long time away from home. This was my eighth state to get geocaches in
every county by motorcycle. That’s a
pretty big chunk of territory. Next on
the list is to finish Colorado this summer with Yancey. M/W
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