A 3 day, 1500 mile trip through California, Arizona, Utah and a little bit of Colorado. Main themes : Brutal heat in Arizona, Navajo Nation and the Indian lifestyle, high deserts of Utah. I've wanted to live a lonely-ish lifestyle in the high desert plateaus ever since I first saw them in eastern Oregon. I like the flat landscape with the sagebrush and short trees, the magnificent big sky and the all encompassing silence. I can only imagine how wonderful the cloudless night sky would look. Someday.. I'll find a cabin to live out there in those pretty places, grow my own food, watch the distant thunderstorms at day, the milky-way at night, relish the silence, hack on the Linux kernel (and maybe even get paid for it) ...The Life! Lots of the ride took me through desert areas within Navajo nation (the largest semi-autonomous Indian reservation in western US) with its own cops and laws. I saw them giving out speeding tickets inside monument valley area - I barely escaped - the guy I let overtake me got caught. Anyway, here are some pics from the road.

                     Anza borrego desert in California 

   Sand dunes in Sahara ..err Imperial Sand dunes in California 

Four corners - The point where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet 

 Check out the year Bluff was established. Must've been an old Indian
 trading post 

                           Monument Valley 

                 A little bit of reality check en route 

 US-89 through southern Utah. US-89 through Wyoming is a real pretty ride
 and after this trip, I've concluded that US-89 was created to be 
 The scenic road

 Somewhere on the way to Zion national park. Turned around after I noticed 
 they wanted $25 to just ride through the park. Must be the economy.. 

 A view through my bedroom window. Nice, eh? 
 Gotta love living in northern San Diego. We got it all  - The weather, 
 the ocean, the beaches, the mountains, the desert.. did I mention the 
 weather? and everything else God intended man to enjoy :-)