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<\/a>That was the situation on the first day of our recent Utah trip, just about the time we crossed from Colorado into Utah. The sky was incredible. If I had been alone I would have stopped and shot a photo. That’s one of the problems in traveling with a group. I can’t count the number of pictures I have missed because I was with other people and for me to stop means for the whole group to stop.<\/p>\n Here’s what I wrote in my journal that evening: “Coming into Utah there were some incredible clouds like I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. A sky full of individual cotton balls, tinted purple and blue and white, patches of blue sky poking through, and the rest of the sky all kinds of mixed shades.”<\/p>\n And it’s so utterly impermanent. Five minutes later the sky didn’t look at all like it had before.<\/p>\n What this really emphasized for me is that I really need to put my GoPro camera to work more often. If I had had that set up not only would I have captured some shots of this incredible sky, I would also have gotten some pretty fabulous shots of the bikes ahead of me going through some terrific country. I always get lessons on these rides; too bad I rarely remember them when it’s time to prepare for the next trip.<\/p>\n Travel as much as you can, as often as you can, and as far as you can. Life was not meant to be lived in just one place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One thing about clouds is that they are always utterly unique. One thing about riding motorcycles is that you are not in a box with a limited field of vision, you are out there to see it all, all around you. That was the situation on the first day of our recent Utah trip, just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[1587,1588],"class_list":["post-13563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-touring","tag-amazing-clouds","tag-the-view-from-a-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13565,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions\/13565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI searched and searched for a photo that even came close to what I saw and this was the best I could find. But it’s still nothing like it.<\/strong> (Photo by antoine de Barquin on Unsplash.)<\/p><\/div>
\nOne thing about clouds is that they are always utterly unique. One thing about riding motorcycles is that you are not in a box with a limited field of vision, you are out there to see it all, all around you.<\/p>\nBiker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n