Sunday 23rd
Paul, Gerald and Hugh take an early morning, 2.5hr flight from Brice over the rugged canyons and stepped lands to Monument Valley. Good to get a perspective on the area, the Monument Valley was a little dissapointing and the flight a little too bumpy.
"split in the camp".
SUV loaded and everyone rugged up on bikes. Paul and Ken set the heater to a steady 23 and headed for Las Vegas while the remainder (who had not seen the Grand Canyon before) headed off in a strong cold wind to the Grand Canyon. They experienced some tough winds and overnight snow, (see photo) some what of a record snow for this time of year. Like Brice the wall of the canyon is at 8000 feet plus, so cold and snow is always possible in the non summer period. After having a good look at the canyon on Sunday evening they chipped the snow off the bikes in the morning, and headed off to LV on Monday in great weather and passed through Zion National Park, from all reports a great ride and good scenery again.
Meanwhile Ken and I battled LV traffic and navigated to the MGM hotel where we found about 6 lanes of cars and taxis at the entrance out front of the lobby and at least 20 staff serving at the check in counter with visiters 5 deep. We managed to negotiate all this and took in some of the miles of poker machines in this hotel which has 5,005 guest rooms. The MGM is seriously large I think the largest hotel in the world. This morning just getting from breakfast back to our room on the 16th floor and back to the lobby took 17 minutes without any hold ups. Apparently ther are 4 Star bucks here, I have only seen two so far.
Monday evening the bikers turn up in time for dinner.
All back together and the split in the camp is history.
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