Picto Diary - 23 August 2016 - Breakdown

Above: Capital Reef National Park. Utah. 23 August 2016.

Breakfast with ITYW; Destination Park City via Bar J ranch and pork sausage pick up at Barretts in Salina.

Image 1. Fichu. ITYW's BMW K bike disabled. Bowery Haven Resort, Fish Lake, UT. ITYW gets tow to SLC. 220 miles. —23 August 2016.

Image 2. Fish Lake.23 August 2016.

ITYW (Nam. US Army combat engineers) and dock manager, Bowery Haven Resort, Dave (Iraq. US Army 82nd Airborne). ITYW awaits tow for the disabled K bike.

War shaped the life of both.

ITYW moved on. Wants to forget. Affiliates with no vet organizations. Adopted the profession of estranged Dad. Plumber. Motorcycle adventure brought us together. Hat tip Isetta.

Dave. Disabled. PTSD. Can't get the experience out of his head.


Image 3. Bishop and Commodore. Gooseberry Road. Fish Lake National Forest. 11.5K feet elevation. Mt. Terrell in background.

All Gooseberry paved for first time this year.


Image 4. Bishop, Monk, Oscar, Jim, Tony, Monk Jr., Commodore. Lunch. Bar J Ranch.


Image 5. Bishop, Emily (Assistant Manager), Commodore. Burns Saddlery. Salina, UT. Behind. Famed Burns hat making atelier.

Cowboy Jim's "Unforgiven," Clint Eastwood hat worn by cowboy Jim at Bar J lunch tugged. Got full beaver. Ready in six weeks.

Called ITYW from Salina. Riding with his K bike in the tow truck, he was 30 minutes out from Harrison Eurosports in Salt Lake City. I gotta hustle since I have to ride 180 miles home, and then go pick him up!

Addendum:

Love seeing you and ITYW in God’s Country.
Did a little bit of that 2 yrs ago and really, really enjoyed staying overnight in Bluff, UT. I was leading 16 Italians on vintage Benelli motos with Eligio. Seems that Bluff was supposed to be an alternate location for a Mormon settlement. Great local museum about the search for an alternate locale?

Isetta, Chicago, IL

Mormons tried to settle. Efforts stymied by periodic floods on San Juan River.

SDT