All good things come to an end, as they say and today was unfortunately our last day – about 1/2 day of riding with one last big climb to tackle – the climb up from Mineral Bottom. What we didn’t know was that after we left Canyonlands and entered onto BLM land, they were working on a significant stretch of the road and it was a painful, slow ride on newly smeared sand (as opposed to a nicely graded road!) A few choice words might have been uttered as I felt like I was riding through glue.

I decided to ride the last day in the RAAM jersey that Ross gave me. To train for this trip, I had been riding into work twice a week and then Joel and I had ridden 15 – 20 miles a week at Antelope Island for a total of about 55 miles a week. I still can’t fathom the training that Ross did for RAAM to be able to ride 2500 miles … WOW!

Leaving Canyonlands National Park onto BLM land for the rest of the trip.

Joel ended up with some interesting tan lines!

Of course we had to pick up some melons from Dunham’s to take home!

Once we finished lunch and started the drive home, my first thought was how nice it was to go for almost four full days without emails, texts or phone calls. The next thing I thought about was, “What trip are we going to go on with Holiday next year!” Wonderful time was had by all …