A UTAH CYCLING ADVENTURE

DAY 6 -- St. GEORGE

Friday, June 27, 1998

Those of us who flew out loaded our bikes up onto the vehicles that would bear them back to Oklahoma. We then had several hours to kill before the van would arrive to take us to Las Vegas to catch our return flights.

Jim and I had found a brochure in the Motel about walking tour of St. George, so we invited the other "flyers" to join us. Only two, Ralph and Cindy, joined us. We got the motel courtesy van to drop us off near the center of town where the tour began.

We had a pleasant morning strolling around the old part of St. George and looking at the homes built by the early pioneers, many of which we had "met" in the play we had attended on our first evening in St. George.

The highlights of this tour were the excellent pioneer museum and the winter home of Brigham Young, one of the leaders of the early Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints, which is the proper name for the church organization most of the world refers to as "Mormans". The term Morman stems from the Book of Morman that the LDS faithful believe is the inspired word of God given to Joseph Smith, the church's founder.

After completing the tour, we walked back to the motel rather than calling the motel to have the courtesy van pick us up as they had offered to do. I guess we were still in "self-transport" mode from having been cycling all week.

All in all, it was a FANTASTIC week, one of those wonderful cycling experiences that will live in my memory forever.

Day's mileage: 0 Bicycling, about 5 walking.

Total tour bicycle miles: 231.1

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last modified: July 6, 1998