Sometimes it isn’t easy to make a decision when you have too many options to consider. I know… first world problem for sure… but trying to figure out what to do next on this trip has been really difficult.
Originally the plan was to head through Idaho and spend a good bit of time in Oregon. But the wildfires had other plans for us. On the one hand, we could just stick with the plan and make the best of it – but on the other hand there isn’t much point to going places where you can’t see anything more than about 500 yards away and the air quality is SO bad that physical activity just isn’t recommended.
We had contemplated flying back east and grabbing the big bikes and riding across the US (basically to get the bikes somewhere on this side of the country). But we finally decided that it would be too costly and too logistically-challenging to make it work right now.
So what to do?
We knew we wanted to go back to Moab at some point on the trip, but we thought that would be late in the Spring of 2018. But Darryl realized while looking at the map that Moab just isn’t that far away – and after a weather check we realized that the summer heat is starting to die down a bit. So to Moab we will go!
The plan is to be in Moab for about a week for now – and hopefully by then the wildfires will have died down a bit and we can return to the original plan. We’ll see!
So off we go to the land of Arches, Eddie McStiff’s beer (yum!), Dead Horse Point… and more! And we can’t wait!
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