Guatemala to Alaska and Back - Page 33

GuateRider · 06-01-2012, 02:24 PM

Check in at Zion Primitive Campground
100 F and no showers and no shade...
But life is good !!!!?

cyberdos · 06-01-2012, 02:37 PM

I'm telling you, if you use the evaporative cooling vest it will help. Even while you're walking around. Construction workers use them as well and yes, it may feel a little slimy but that's just that gel that they use to help keep the vest wet and not dry so quickly.

Have you been following my route or something Ed suggested? Now that you're at Zion, from here through southern Utah and on into Colorado you guys are going to get a sensory overload. FUN FUN FUN stuff.

Happy to see you guys moving along. The heat should subside once the sun goes down. If you guys make it up to Cedar Breaks tomorrow you'll get nice weather up there. HUGE difference from where you're at right now.

Ed~ · 06-01-2012, 03:56 PM

Looks like your trip is really gearing up along with the heat...

I shared your posts and pics with George last night. I liked the striking shot of you at Horseshoe Bend; often thought to find out where where that was. George was especially taken with your wonderful pictures inside Antelope Canyon.

94 degrees here at 5,500 ft. today... It's starting to look like Arizona in Bisbee again.

GuateRider · 06-01-2012, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cyberdos

I'm telling you, if you use the evaporative cooling vest it will help. Even while you're walking around. Construction workers use them as well and yes, it may feel a little slimy but that's just that gel that they use to help keep the vest wet and not dry so quickly.

Have you been following my route or something Ed suggested? Now that you're at Zion, from here through southern Utah and on into Colorado you guys are going to get a sensory overload. FUN FUN FUN stuff.

Happy to see you guys moving along. The heat should subside once the sun goes down. If you guys make it up to Cedar Breaks tomorrow you'll get nice weather up there. HUGE difference from where you're at right now.

So far beside a few detour we have been following your route . We will spend at least one more day I Zion, it's really beautifull once you get away from the shuttle bus

Looking forward to cooler climate...

GuateRider · 06-01-2012, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed~

Looks like your trip is really gearing up along with the heat...

I shared your posts and pics with George last night. I liked the striking shot of you at Horseshoe Bend; often thought to find out where where that was. George was especially taken with your wonderful pictures inside Antelope Canyon.

94 degrees here at 5,500 ft. today... It's starting to look like Arizona in Bisbee again.

When George get his bike out off the shop you should take a ride to Antelope, it's mind blowing!!

_CJ · 06-01-2012, 07:17 PM

FREE BEER!!!!.....for all people who stop in Colorado Springs while traveling from Guatemala to Alaska.

GuateRider · 06-02-2012, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _CJ

FREE BEER!!!!.....for all people who stop in Colorado Springs while traveling from Guatemala to Alaska.

Keep those beers cold, we are on our way to Colorado

GuateRider · 06-02-2012, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by klous-1

YAY!!! CAMPING! Ask anyone and never pay and things will be great...! I'd like to see a video of you getting p!ssed off with the tent...wait until it's windy, you'll love that too....

Last night it was windy as hell here un Zion , no video,not pissed, just surprised that I actually did a good job at setting up the tent

GuateRider · 06-03-2012, 01:35 PM

We left Page in the morning ,after getting all our camping gear packed and loaded on the bike . Pretty soon the temperature started rising and it got very hot . But the scenery was so great that it was actually possible to ignore the heat .

We made our first stop at the Navajo Bridge

Under the bridge we got to see a family of Californian Condor … unfortunately they were too lazy to fly

The red sandstone formation everywhere are just so beautifull ,over and over again…

Some of them reminded me of the Valley of the Monks in Creel, Chihuahua

We even made it all the way down to the Colorado river , but down there it was HOT, even for Luisa Fernanda

And then finally we were there…It is always a very powerfull feeling for me,to arrive at a place that I have been dreaming about for so many years , a place that I knew from books, TV reports, stories told by friends, RR,…and now I was there….Ahhhuuuuuuuuuaaaaaa

GuateRider · 06-03-2012, 04:12 PM

We arrived at the Grand Canyon around noon and we got lucky at the campground : It was full but somebody had just made a cancelation so we got a spot to put up our tent .

After that I was over anxious to get to see the Canyon finally ; so we went still with all our gear on for a ride out to the scenic drive . The first view was breathtaking , hard to describe …

We just kept on going from viewpoint to viewpoint , enjoying the view and the feeling that we had inside ; we were like little kids playing and fooling around, not doing anything else then enjoying ourself and living the moment….

nailit2em · 06-03-2012, 11:57 PM

Amazing!!!
Wish we were with you on this journey!! Nikki and I really love Arizona, Utah and Colorado!! I'll have to settle, for now, following and enjoying from home. It's great to see you two having such a great time!!

odavid57 · 06-04-2012, 02:46 PM

What incredible pictures of the grand canyon...next on my bucket list... missed you the other day at tennis.
keep on truckin
omar

GuateRider · 06-04-2012, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nailit2em

Amazing!!!
Wish we were with you on this journey!! Nikki and I really love Arizona, Utah and Colorado!! I'll have to settle, for now, following and enjoying from home. It's great to see you two having such a great time!!

Would be fun the four of us

Quote:

Originally Posted by odavid57

What incredible pictures of the grand canyon...next on my bucket list... missed you the other day at tennis.
keep on truckin
omar

This are just the pictures that I took the first day, the good ones are still to come...
Guess you guys had an easy match on Saturday

GuateRider · 06-04-2012, 08:25 PM

Today we saw snow for the second time on our journey;we took a long ride from Cedar City to Bryce and at one point we were above 10 000 feet
Bryce : an other incredible place, tons of pictures taken

GuateRider · 06-05-2012, 10:12 PM

Luisa Fernanda and I, we talked a long time about the differences between the Grand Canyon and Copper Canyon or about the different way we felt both canyons ,the different impact they had on both of us …
Comparing two so impressive and unique places might even sound disrespect full in some way , but having seen both in such a short period of time makes it almost impossible not to do so. Having seen one before the other also takes impartiality away, but surprisingly at the end we both kept our different opinion . IMO a lot of the different impact of the 2 canyons is caused by the so different colors, one hard and cool and the other one soft and warm…One was almost like a private show, the other one was a public event , one was free, the other one was much regulated. They have so many differences but at the end of the day the determinating issue is what they have in common :They are both outstanding and incredibly impressive and amazing places and I am very lucky to have had the chance to see both of them and I would not want to miss either one of them

Here still a few more pictures from the North Rim

06-01-2012, 02:24 PM	#481
GuateRider ^OP Beastly Adventurer Joined: Jan 2008 Location: Momentarily back in Guatemala Oddometer: 1,179	Check in at Zion Primitive Campground 100 F and no showers and no shade... But life is good !!!!? __________________ Guatemala-Alaska-Guatemala

06-01-2012, 02:37 PM	#482
cyberdos True Story Bro Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Queen Creek, AZ Oddometer: 17,607	I'm telling you, if you use the evaporative cooling vest it will help. Even while you're walking around. Construction workers use them as well and yes, it may feel a little slimy but that's just that gel that they use to help keep the vest wet and not dry so quickly. Have you been following my route or something Ed suggested? Now that you're at Zion, from here through southern Utah and on into Colorado you guys are going to get a sensory overload. FUN FUN FUN stuff. Happy to see you guys moving along. The heat should subside once the sun goes down. If you guys make it up to Cedar Breaks tomorrow you'll get nice weather up there. HUGE difference from where you're at right now. __________________ ... Presione dos para español.

06-01-2012, 03:56 PM	#483
Ed~ What, Me Worry? Joined: Sep 2010 Location: Bisbee, AZ Oddometer: 333	Yup... heating up! Looks like your trip is really gearing up along with the heat... I shared your posts and pics with George last night. I liked the striking shot of you at Horseshoe Bend; often thought to find out where where that was. George was especially taken with your wonderful pictures inside Antelope Canyon. 94 degrees here at 5,500 ft. today... It's starting to look like Arizona in Bisbee again. __________________ "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi

06-01-2012, 07:17 PM	#486
_CJ Kick'n it old-school Joined: Dec 2010 Location: The 719, Yo. Oddometer: 751	FREE BEER!!!!.....for all people who stop in Colorado Springs while traveling from Guatemala to Alaska. __________________ 1990 DR350 1978 XS650 Scrambler http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=824521 http://youtu.be/WyMzXajM4qw http://youtu.be/8k49qhD3CwE

06-03-2012, 01:35 PM	#489
GuateRider ^OP Beastly Adventurer Joined: Jan 2008 Location: Momentarily back in Guatemala Oddometer: 1,179	Page to Grand Canyon We left Page in the morning ,after getting all our camping gear packed and loaded on the bike . Pretty soon the temperature started rising and it got very hot . But the scenery was so great that it was actually possible to ignore the heat . We made our first stop at the Navajo Bridge Under the bridge we got to see a family of Californian Condor … unfortunately they were too lazy to fly The red sandstone formation everywhere are just so beautifull ,over and over again… Some of them reminded me of the Valley of the Monks in Creel, Chihuahua We even made it all the way down to the Colorado river , but down there it was HOT, even for Luisa Fernanda And then finally we were there…It is always a very powerfull feeling for me,to arrive at a place that I have been dreaming about for so many years , a place that I knew from books, TV reports, stories told by friends, RR,…and now I was there….Ahhhuuuuuuuuuaaaaaa __________________ Guatemala-Alaska-Guatemala

06-03-2012, 04:12 PM	#490
GuateRider ^OP Beastly Adventurer Joined: Jan 2008 Location: Momentarily back in Guatemala Oddometer: 1,179	Grand Canyon, North Rim We arrived at the Grand Canyon around noon and we got lucky at the campground : It was full but somebody had just made a cancelation so we got a spot to put up our tent . After that I was over anxious to get to see the Canyon finally ; so we went still with all our gear on for a ride out to the scenic drive . The first view was breathtaking , hard to describe … We just kept on going from viewpoint to viewpoint , enjoying the view and the feeling that we had inside ; we were like little kids playing and fooling around, not doing anything else then enjoying ourself and living the moment…. __________________ Guatemala-Alaska-Guatemala

06-03-2012, 11:57 PM	#491
nailit2em Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Jan 2007 Location: KANSAS CITY Missouri Oddometer: 286	Wow Amazing!!! Wish we were with you on this journey!! Nikki and I really love Arizona, Utah and Colorado!! I'll have to settle, for now, following and enjoying from home. It's great to see you two having such a great time!! __________________ Have Kegs will travel!

06-04-2012, 02:46 PM	#492
odavid57 Adventurer Joined: Feb 2012 Oddometer: 12	wow What incredible pictures of the grand canyon...next on my bucket list... missed you the other day at tennis. keep on truckin omar

06-04-2012, 08:25 PM	#494
GuateRider ^OP Beastly Adventurer Joined: Jan 2008 Location: Momentarily back in Guatemala Oddometer: 1,179	Today we saw snow for the second time on our journey;we took a long ride from Cedar City to Bryce and at one point we were above 10 000 feet Bryce : an other incredible place, tons of pictures taken __________________ Guatemala-Alaska-Guatemala

06-05-2012, 10:12 PM	#495
GuateRider ^OP Beastly Adventurer Joined: Jan 2008 Location: Momentarily back in Guatemala Oddometer: 1,179	Luisa Fernanda and I, we talked a long time about the differences between the Grand Canyon and Copper Canyon or about the different way we felt both canyons ,the different impact they had on both of us … Comparing two so impressive and unique places might even sound disrespect full in some way , but having seen both in such a short period of time makes it almost impossible not to do so. Having seen one before the other also takes impartiality away, but surprisingly at the end we both kept our different opinion . IMO a lot of the different impact of the 2 canyons is caused by the so different colors, one hard and cool and the other one soft and warm…One was almost like a private show, the other one was a public event , one was free, the other one was much regulated. They have so many differences but at the end of the day the determinating issue is what they have in common :They are both outstanding and incredibly impressive and amazing places and I am very lucky to have had the chance to see both of them and I would not want to miss either one of them Here still a few more pictures from the North Rim __________________ Guatemala-Alaska-Guatemala

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