Just a couple more pics. This is the Shoe Tree and is mile down Hwy 50 from Middle Gate. Look up the story behind this on your search engine of choice - I am sure I wont do justice to it
The place that I stayed at the end of Day 1...Eureka
Back on Track....
So, although I haven't been very good with updating this here blogthingamajig, I have been having a lot of fun. After Aspen and a few places south of there, I headed through Colorado Springs, Denver...didn't stop in either of those places...and on towards Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park. For some reason, Denver seemed 'new', hard to put into word, but the roads, buildings and other things in a typically human infested city seemed cleaner and newer than I am used to in the Bay Area. I stopped for the night in a suburb of Denver called Westmininster. The next morning, I headed towards Rocky, it was a great ride the whole way through. Estes Park at the base of the park is kinda the town before you drive up the Rocky. The ride to the peak of the mountain, is in one, inadequate word, astounding. I hadnt been told by the folks at the visitor center all the little details that came as a pleasant surprise. For one, there are sheer drops on some stretches of the road, also that it...
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