In the dirt

Diamond Bar road.  From here, there is 6 more miles of pavement, then 14 more miles of dirt before getting to the Glass Skywalk over the Grand Canyon

Parking slab at a lookout over Lake Mead.  These pictures are out of order, but I'm tired and sore from a small crash, so I'll just post them like they are.

Eastern part of Lake Mead

We're around 5000 feet elevation here

To get here, we rode over 60 miles, about half on a dirt/sand/gravel road.

The road to the Skywalk has steady tourist bus traffic.  Several different Tour bus Companies haul people, mostly from Las Vegas, and mostly Asians and Europeans.

Joshua Trees

Lanny over there "Dualing Cameras"

Lanny looks like he's been taking lessons from Wrongturn and KT.

Look West, Old Man, look West! (And take a picture)

Another packed tour bus.

There are several large ranches up along the mountains.  The cattle look fat and healthy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtOYUyIKn5I       Antares Road, between Route 66 and the Pierce Ferry Road, 30 some miles of dirt and snakes.  Parallels the Music Mountains.  It was a chilly 60 degrees when we left around 9 AM, and didn't warm up a lot all day. Unseasnably cold.

Since we were headed for more loose dirt, I lowered the Dual Sport tires air pressure.  Makes a world of difference in handling.

This is free range, we passed several small herds of cattle

Cactus are starting to bloom. This one was in the garden at Nancy Lou's Cafe where we stopped in Meadview for lunch.

Nancy Lou's.  Good food and friendly service.  Meadview is a very small town.  One of the "runs" during the Laughlin River Run comes up here, a  check point and food stop.

Love the sign!

The clean bike isn't any more.  We kicked up a lot of dust this morning

Junction of Pierce Ferry Road and Diamond Bar road.

This is as close as we got to the Canyon today.  You can't see anything unless you pay to park and pay more for a bus ride to the Canyon, then there is always a long wait to even get out to the skyway.  It's very expensive, and you can't take a camera with you on the glass.

Getting settled in at Nancy Lou's,  Lunch hour, so there was a few locals in there eating

Lanny took this, I'm a happy rider with a tummy full of an excellent burrito

Only 10 miles from home now. My right lower leg is starting to swell up from the fall.  I'm sure nothing is seriously hurt. 

Back to the beginning, our first stop after leaving Kingman

Beef Steaks!  Or, maybe these are Elk in Cows clothing.

Beginning of a story.  Red Lake is a dry lake bed about 30 miles North of Kingman.  On the way home, we went out and threw a lot of dirt blasting around the nice level surface.  Decided to get back on the main road at a different place from where we entered, and after a few tiries we were stopped by this puddle.  Lanny stopped to take this picture, I turned around and kept going. After a couple more tries (I thought he was right behind me) I turned up a deep, soft sand filled wash that looked like it went in the right direction.  After  a few hundred yards of struggling, I was going wide open in 2nd gear trying to stay up on the sand.  Hit a hole, and shot off the side into a brush filled bank and went down hard.  Bike high sided and landed on my lower right leg.  Couldn't get my shoe out from under the right hand rail that was holding it down.  Finally managed to dig it out with my hand enought to wiggle it out. Then, a difficult job of getting the bike back up and untangled from the "pucker brush".  Eventually we found each other and made it back to the highway.  Now have a swollen ankle, but no real harm done.  I didn't think to take a picture, and any more at all of the day.  It was a great ride, but think I may let the leg heal up before hitting the dirt again :-)