Day 20 Ely, NV to Fruita, CO - Kevin

Doing "The Ton"

Left Ely, NV and head out again eastward on Hwy 50. After the second summit and about halfway across a huge basin came the realization that I haven't done "The Ton" on this bike. The road ahead and the road in the rear view was deserted. A long straight ribbon of asphalt that faded into a the horizon ahead. Already traveling 70 mph I dropped down into 5th gear and the big Vic started to rumble, cracked the throttle and it roared. Heavily weighted down with camping gear it began to start buffering and I looked at the speedo and we were at 105 mph, good enough we made "The Ton" in moments flat.
All total we travel another 222 miles of the loneliest highway. The sections in Nevada were beautiful as before, unless you like buildings, side roads, anything manmade because they are not there. The Utah section started pretty but quickly became arid and unattractive. We also lost a hour when crossing the time zone at the Nevada/Utah line, that hurts when trying to get back quickly. But once on I-70 Utah became beautiful. How Stephanie kept her bike on the road is a mystery. The landscape was stunning with huge bizarre rock formations to canyons on both sides of the interstate. Not a straight road either as it twisted around, climbed summits and dropped down just as quick. After a while we had to stop so she could get her camera and put on the helmet cam.
Made it through Utah safely and into Colorado where we found a campground and chilling for the night.
Still have 1,400 miles to get home and once we go another 220 miles we will be on the eastern side of the Rockies.... :-(   The Great Plains await us with about 1,100 miles of boredom until we see our beloved hills back home.
Great Day With My Honey!!!!

View from a summit on Hwy 50 in Nevada

One owner low miles make offer

View looking into a basin of Hwy 50 Nevada

Seen lots of old gas stations but this one still had its pumps!!

Utah, this is a plain looking rock formation compared to the others