"I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October" - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

An emotional return to Arizona

But I wasn't hitchhiking, my car made it!

I ran into another guy going home in October; Rockin Rodney, trying to hitch with his bike back home to Flagstaff. A cool guy to talk to, I wish I had a truck to give him a ride.

"At dawn my bus was zooming across the Arizona desert - Indio, Blythe, Salome (where she danced); the great dry stretches leading to Mexican mountains in the south." - Jack Kerouac, On the Road
This is my third time passing through Salome in the tire tracks of Jack Kerouac. All three times I was coming home from Canada under emotional circumstances; Dec 2008, Oct 2009, and now Oct 2012. I chose to go this way this time just make the connection with the previous trips.

I never get tired of photographing this old building and sign post



Home!

Cedar Breaks National Monument - finally!

After 4 attempts I finally got to see Cedar Breaks. Every other time I've come through this part of Utah the roads have been closed by snow.

It almost didn't happen this time either. This is the view at noon.

But 4 hours later it cleared up.

Ahhhh!

Bonneville Salt Flats

the end of the road, after this you drive onto the salt

I thought it was funny how all the European backpackers flock to the salt flats in Bolivia. I was just like "yeah we have one of those in Utah"



You can't drive onto the salt right now, it's very wet. This is as far as I got. It's not a big deal, my car isn't got to set any land speed records in the condition it's in right now. It still looks good though.