Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Captions for previous pictures

The pictures from the previous blog should have had captions with them.
Unfortunately - they too disappeared into cyber space.
I can tell you that the start from Friday morning in Snowville and end up Friday night in Willard State Park in Utah.

We left Snowville - and that's when I had problems with my brakes.
We then continued on passing the ATK/NASA site in Utah. Please advise if you know what
ATK stands for. Some of the riders went into the building and even the employees didn't know.

The pictures after that are of the local landscape. The ground looks literally baked in some sections but there was also lakes along the route as well.

After those pictures comes a picture of a father & daughter (Rachel & her dad) who were having lunch in the Golden Spike Cafe. (The site of the Golden Spike site was only 5 miles from the ATK site). They asked me about our tour and I told them about the tour. Rachel was very interested. When I told them where we were staying for the night - her dad (I didn't get his name) said it was a nice spot - but full of mosquitoes. Didn't really want to know that but it wasn't too bad when I got there. I slept on the beach and doused myself in OFF (non-sticky) and had no problems.

The picture after Rachel and her dad is of Lucy Blue in front of the cafe sign. It was a good place to stop and most of us did so before continuing on.
Following the cafe are pictures of the rest of the route to Willard, including 2 local enterprenuers.
The next pics are at Willard St. Park & a picture of Arnie - a fellow rider who had to leave the tour over the weekend due to a ruptured Achilles tendon which will be operated on Friday. Please remember him in your prayers.

The last 2 pictures are from Saturday a.m. on our way to Jordanelle St. Park - just outside of Salt Lake City. The first one is the sign at the local recycling center where Corey (SAG driver) and I ended up as we looked for the CRC in Salt Lake City. We obviously took a wrong turn.
The last picture is the churh which provided refreshments for the riders before the major climb up the huuuugggeee pass on the way to Jordanelle Park.

Hope you've enjoyed these and will work on getting more up a.s.a.p.

2 comments:

kbach352 said...

ATK is Alliant Techsystems, Inc. Not sure about the 'K'.

Jo said...

That's about all anyone knows about what ATK stands for. So, if anyone knows what the mysterious "K" stands for - please let us know.
Thanks -