Sedona is fantastic. I could move my family there, and so it was with some disappointment that we set out at 7am this morning for what turned out to be a very long but interesting day. Route 89A out of Sedona is considered one of the 20 best rides in the USA. It is only some 30km but just super incredible.
Beautiful Sedona.
We were headed for Vegas via the Grand Canyon Skywalk that Jax and I had visited back in 2013, and decided to make a last minute turn to a different location on the Canyon. Having been to both locations on the South Rim, whilst the skywalk benefits from the spin of a marketing budget, I’m afraid it doesn’t come close to the vistas one gets at the Grand Canyon Village, not to mention that the costs are a fraction of those of the Skywalk!
The detour added some 200km to our ride today so we ended up doing 670km and only getting into Vegas at 17:30 at what felt like peak heat of 47C (117F). Arriving for check in at the Bellagio is always a treat and getting off our bikes seriously sweaty and smelly after 12 hours and 670km resulted in “those looks” from the bell hops that suggest we are at the wrong place! Too funny!
Days 670km ride.
Anyway, we are now here for 2 nights and looking forward to resting up a little as Rup and I have covered 3550km since New Orleans in just 6 days.
Pete
June 26, 2015 at 10:58 pm
Hi Rui,Rupert,have read all your blogs and am really envious .
Have had little time to respond until now as am at the coal face and working not like a xxxxxxx but a slave .
Some of the trip looks awesome .
Enjoy every minute of freedom/open air and also indulge but not too much.
Take care.
Cocorico
June 27, 2015 at 8:32 pm
The bell hops would have been awestruck if you had arrived to the tune of the 990 R with the Acrapovic’s.
The ‘fat lady ‘ is showing respectable mileage I see.
The daily distances are old hat to you Rui; but big kudos to Rupert for coping so well after the long layoff.