Day 21

I leave burn and head south to my first off road track of the day , it doesn’t take long to realize this is not good, it’s okay to plot a route on base camp or Google Earth but that doesn’t give you the complete picture and this was one of those tlmes, the track turned into a Sandy rutted bull dust holled pig of a track heading into a huge expance of flat nothing but desert the likes I have not seen before Iturn and head back to the safety of the gravel Rd 2 hrs later I go past where that track crosses the Rd I’m on and disappears into the most barren flat landscape I think I have seen

I continue on into Hart mtn national antelope refuge with great scenery and end up in the very small settlement of Adel , there’s nothing there except a small store

 

the nearest accommodation is cedarville a 100 odd Ks away which has one motel ,my phone doesn’t work so the lady at the store phones through for me and I get the last unit.the first 50ks is gravel that runs along the foot of a large mountain range and reminds me of the wide skiddy sth island rds, the perfect way to finish the day and the sealed section was just as good

As a footnote regarding my lnitial route I spoke to a bloke at the motel who had competed ln the Baja on KTMs and ls still an avid ADV rider and he said that the area I was heading into is regarded as the most isolated place in the USA thanks Kylie for making me make the right decision
Photo of sun in the smoke haze and it’s not just the bike doing this trip

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