1050 miles in : Day 18 : Hanksville, Utah

The roads in Southern Utah have me passing through more then 50 million years of Earth history. Today a lonesome piece of Colorado plateau, Routes 12 and 24 East, will drop from 9,600' elevation outide of Escalante to the Colorado River (Lake Powell at 3,800') through an ever changing kaleidoscope of a thousand colors. According to the Adventure Cycling Association http://www.adventurecycling.org/, 'Utah may not be the most cuturally diverse state in the U.S., but it does boast a broader diversity of fantastic landscapes than most, if not all, other states.'

This morning the bike and I crossed our first thousand miles.