Awww Monday and The Third and Last day of the Bicycle Race! September 13, 2021

Thanks Sandee for Awww Mondays! 

And many thanks to our awesome friends who included us 

in their adventurous 3 Day 500 Mile Bicycle race! 

What a ride!

 

Well, I am back on my own driving from Panquitch Utah back to St George Utah! I chose to take the scenic route rather then hooking up to I-15 and zooming down the freeway. 

So I ambled south down on 143, stopped at Panguitch Lake and went past a skiing mountain area Brian Head elevation 11,299 feet before turning south to go down on 148 past Cedar Breaks National Monument. 

I made a few stops along the way- to take in the majestic views. 

Eventually I made my way back to the I-15 freeway and made good time getting back to St George Utah and was able to check back in early at the very nice Best Western  Abbey Inn.

Got settled and then went to the pool area to swim and read .

I eventually got a bit hungry and after looking a bit online I chose to go to Georges Corner Restaurant !!  WOW- delicious !!  I definitely would go back for more yummy food!     

Unfortunately we all were not able to get in there for dinner so we chose a not so great place Texas Roadhouse and all I will say is DO NOT EAT THERE. Noisy, crowded and marginal food.

But it was fun to celebrate 

The Three Day 500 Mile Bicycle Race!

Here are two of our good friends coming in to the finish line!

I even managed to capture their finish time!

The next day we all packed up our cars and began the 3 day odyssey back to our homes! What an adventure!

Tomorrow I will wrap up this fun time with a few adventures Russell and I had on our 3 day drive home!

Cheers and have a lovely day!

Feline Friday and the Second Day of the Bicycle Race! September 10, 2021

Image credit  HERE

Since so much of the Utah scenery is red and orange tones I chose a Ginger cat for today's Feline Friday!

Enjoy and have a meowy nice day!

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The following photos were taken around 5:40am on

Saturday August 28, 2021 outside by our motel Prospectors Inn. 

A great place to stay! These four are some of the

tough and intrepid hard core and crazee bicycle racers!

Here are some more before they all blasted off at 7am!

Then after they left Russell and I took off to explore on our own! 

We first headed back up to Escalante so the we could see the Anazasi Indian Village State Park! 

Well worth backtracking to see it! 

I only took two photos of it- so be sure to explore this site.

Their web site explains my few photos: 

"Explore an Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) village that was likely occupied from A.D. 1050 to 1200, and one of the largest communities west of the Colorado River. Outside the museum, tour a life-sized, six-room replica of an ancient dwelling and view a portion of the original site. Inside, view artifacts excavated from this site and learn the lifeways of these people."

From there we drove further north on 12 and then

hooked up onto 24 driving up and down summits of 9,000' and 8000'! Amazing views and parks that we drove through stopping hither and yon to take short hikes and take photographs. It was an Unforgettable and Amazing day! Here are just a few photos:

We stood on the edge of massive beauty.

And then we were back on the road.....

coming down 62 and onto 89 where we stopped in Circleville the to visit the home of Butch Cassidy!  

No kidding!

I took some interior photos - there's a bit of glare from the plastic shields keeping folks from walking into the space.

Had to get a photo of Russell in front- the last time he was here was way back in the 1960's! He really wanted to come back and see if it had survived! And it had because this guy below helped restore this piece of history!

 

We finally pulled into the town of Panguitch UT

as all the bike riders showed up!

They were ready for hot showers and a delicious dinner

and then to bed! As tomorrow is the final ride back into 

gorgeous St George Utah!

Thanks Sandee for sharing this Feline Friday space with all the bike riders! Cheers!

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