THE LONE RIDER
“You’d need six months to see the palette of canyons, valleys and mesas, shaped by time, wind and water.”
Finally, it was happening. After two aborted attempts, my idealised, romanticised motorcycle road trip across the USA was now a pulsating, mile-by-mile reality. Well, not ‘across’, really, but audacious enough for me: a loop from Los Angeles out through Nevada into southern Utah to within sight of the Colorado border, then south into the Four Corners region before turning west back towards California through