Havn't ran across a working computer till now.  Much has happened since Moab.  I bought a bike, sent home my pack, carrying food, water, a tarp, my little cook pot (no stove, cookin on the fire)....that's about it.  Travelling realy light.  I stuck to most of the ADT through Utah, mountain biking on some rough trails and over some big moutains.  Climbed to over 10,000' twice, into beautiful alpine green mountains with clear streams and cold nights.  Rode through desert canyons and sage brush valleys.  Some places in particular I fell in love with (the Canyon at the abandoned Osiris Mill just North of Antimony along the Sevier River, and the Antimony and Junction areas in general).  My last gravel road/trail was "the pass" road coming out of Beaver.  Beautiful little stream there taking me into the Mineral mountains where I had my first ripe gooseberries and serviceberries, and probably my last this year, who knows, We will see what The Lake Tahoe region holds.

I had a lot of generosity in Utah.  From huge steaks in the Manti-la-Sal National Forest, partying with rangers at Hite Marina on the Colorado river.  Free place to stay with some profesional soccer coaches in the hottest dryest desert I've seen (one of whom has a tortise that guides walks through the desert).

When approaching the Wah Wah desert, I had monsoon rains fall on me and was actualy cold, and the next day climbing the Wah Wah mountains the view behind me looked like the Smoky Mountains and it was realy humid.  Surprised.

Now in Nevada.  I'm riding straight through on 50, for better or worse.  I miss hiking so much now.  Rode around the Snake Range (Great Basin National Park), and the mountains were gorgeous and I realy wish I was in them, drinking their water, sleeping in their cool nights, and trees.  Nevada has mountains everywhere so far, much diferent then the view many have of it being a flat barren place.  Dry?  Yes, the dryest state in the US.  I should be in Lake Tahoe in a week. 

I'll try and post photos of Utah and Nevada soon?