I continued southward, and decided to stretch my legs in the pretty little town of Holbrook. I always like to stop by the old grain elevator.
A little irrigation has created a green oasis at the Holbrook Community Park.
In stark contrast, only sagebrush, and hardy grasses are indigenous to the Curlew National Grassland. However, I still enjoyed the unique beauty of the arid plain as I continued riding south, to Utah.
My 4.1-gallon, Clarke fuel tank gives my Zong a range of 350 miles. Therefore, I didn’t need to pack any extra fuel in my J.C. Whitney travel trunk.
However, I stopped at the Flying J Truck Stop, in Snowville, Utah, to fill my stomach, and my fuel tank, before I headed south, across the arid plain to the Great Salt Lake.
Leaving the pavement at Snowville, I would travel gravel roads all the way to the Promontory Mountains.
Riding into the remote area north of the Great Salt Lake, I would not see a village, or another fuel pump, until I reached the outskirts of Ogden, Utah.
After a beautiful, peaceful ride south, it was time to turn southeast, toward the Promontory Mountains, and Golden Spike National Monument.
In 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake. Traveling toward that historic spot, I decided to ride a short distance along the old, abandoned, Central Pacific rail bed.
The old rail bad was in pretty good shape, even after many years of neglect. However, after my sense of nostalgia was satisfied, I switched over to the newer, smoother gravel road heading in the same direction.
As I neared the Promontory Mountains, I was also approaching the salt flats north of the Great Salt Lake.
After several years of meager rainfall, the Great Salt Lake is shrinking. As I reaced the salt flats, I decided to take a short detour, and explore the area. The United States Air Force frequently conducts bombing practice in these barren salt flats. Duly noting the sign announcing I was entering a “hazardous test operations area,†I proceeded at my own risk.
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