June 1st.

We decided that we'd check out of the hotel and skip the last race on Sunday to head south. We didn't have a preplanned route for the rest of the trip, but we knew that we wanted to go south.

We left after the 2nd AMA Superbike Race, at about 3:30pm.

The route ended up being pretty fun, but we didn't get to Hanksville until sunset. It was sad to have ridden so quickly through Capitol Reef. It was a gorgeous ride with the sun behind us. Mark narrowly avoided running over a rattlesnake soaking up the last rays of the sun on the road. His reaction was very good and I'm not sure I would've reacted as well. There is always improvement possible as a rider.