Day 4 (the route to sublime point)

This would start out as the easiest day and later turn into the most difficult.

We woke up at our campground in Page, AZ and said goodbye to the mormons lol (they were so nice). Got on the bikes and knew that we would not be near anything for a while so our 1 cup size containers with oatmeal in them, would not hold us over. Thank God we decided to go get something at Burger King, because although it is not the healthiest thing in the world, we would definitely need the calories later on.

So we grab breakfast and get on the rode. Its a pretty boring ride (long and straight) but as with all the desert rodes we encountered, the speed limit of 65 was locally translated into 85-90 mph. So we just blazed along until we got within a couple miles of where we would head south towards the grand canyon. We approached a very large mesa and I turned on my helmet cam (which I later realize, was not on). The roads going up the mesa were super fun (include the rode number). They were twisty and with every turn  you got a better veiw.
Finally we get on top of the enormous mesa and head towards the park. BTW, the grand canyon national park is super huge and I am not talking about the actual grand canyon; the PARK is huge. I think it took us 30 mins to get to the actual visitors center. We saw several deer, cows, and maybe even some beefalo... they were too far away for us to tell. (beefalo are a hybrid species that ranchers created and it got out of hand, now the park is trying to find a way to control their rapidly expanding population. Basically its a cow/buffalo, and it looks like a cow sized buffalo)

We finally get to the visitors center and are a little cranky. The views there are ehh... and we were edgy. We decide to cancel our campground reservation and ask the ranger if there is a more spectacular view that perhaps not everyone gets to see. He quickly tells us about Sublime Point, and lets us know that they normally only recommend it for true 4 wheel drive trucks with high clearance.

So I am super excited and Jordann is excited about the view. We head back up the road a bit to begin the trek down the trail that leads to Sublime Point.

The trail starts out super easy and maybe a little sandy in some parts but overall its not bad. The entire thing might not have been as bad if the area hadn't received severe rain in the weeks before we came. What that caused was for the sand to be just dry enough to be like riding a motorcycle in a sand box and the rain to have washed away all the sediment, leaving rocks everywhere the size of croquet balls. Needless to say, this was not the environmet that you wanted to bring your wife into to introduce her to riding offroad on a 500 lb motorcycle. Jordann had a couple of days under her belt of riding offroad but nothing enough to prepare her for what was up ahead.

I think in total, she might have dropped the bike 10 times. Both turn signals were busted and she got a couple scratches on the fairings (which would end up costing us some serious $$$). Most of the time were from nerves and her just getting used to letting that big of a machine move around under her.

After 3 hours of arduous offroading we made 18 miles progress. We had 1 boil-in-a-bag, 1 nalgeen of water for cooking, and half a nalgeen for drinking. We were not planning on camping there, but we were also not expecting it to take 3 hours to get there.



Some of the cliffs you see are 300-500 ft high, and those tiny little green spots are full grown trees. When you start doing the math, you are blown away by the scale of things.

We talk about the storm and decide to camp.

As we arrive to the edge of the pennisula, we are just blown away by the scale of the Grand Canyon. We quickly get off our bikes and hurry over to the edge to get it all in. We wouldn't truly understand the scale until the 4th or 5th time looking at it. Not only is this probably the best view but its also one of the least obstructed. We had 270 degree of grand canyon to look at at all times.