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A jet flies overhead while I ride Cedar Canyon Road; the passengers note in unison that 'there's nothing down there'

133423-cedar-canyon-rd.jpg The rough washboard of upper Black Canyon Road prevents me from gaining any speed as I decend to the Cedar Canyon RoadThumbnailsThis stretch of Cedar Canyon Road is always slow and rough (but scenic) on a bicycleThe rough washboard of upper Black Canyon Road prevents me from gaining any speed as I decend to the Cedar Canyon RoadThumbnailsThis stretch of Cedar Canyon Road is always slow and rough (but scenic) on a bicycleThe rough washboard of upper Black Canyon Road prevents me from gaining any speed as I decend to the Cedar Canyon RoadThumbnailsThis stretch of Cedar Canyon Road is always slow and rough (but scenic) on a bicycleThe rough washboard of upper Black Canyon Road prevents me from gaining any speed as I decend to the Cedar Canyon RoadThumbnailsThis stretch of Cedar Canyon Road is always slow and rough (but scenic) on a bicycleThe rough washboard of upper Black Canyon Road prevents me from gaining any speed as I decend to the Cedar Canyon RoadThumbnailsThis stretch of Cedar Canyon Road is always slow and rough (but scenic) on a bicycleThe rough washboard of upper Black Canyon Road prevents me from gaining any speed as I decend to the Cedar Canyon RoadThumbnailsThis stretch of Cedar Canyon Road is always slow and rough (but scenic) on a bicycle

From a distance, the desert looks brown and empty, so people often don't realize that it provides the same sense of quiet, beauty and solitude that one seeks on a nice empty beach (once you get away from the main roads).