I rolled up over Hoosier pass to Fairplay and hooked around to get my supper fixin's in Buena Vista. Just twenty miles or so north of town you turn off to climb Independence pass.
Just there at the bottom, before the road starts climbing into the mountains is a pair of sweet little lakes... and a hell of a nice camp at a place called Diamond Pt.
Nice breeze that kept the skeeters clear... and a nice view from my "Porch"...
Come the dawn... I was up and prepping for another day in the saddle...
Lil' more problematical when some fella runs off and forgets to pack his cup in the gear...
...so he has to have a Bowl of coffee to start the day :) ... or three...
Then it was pack up and get to rollin'... Higher in the Rockies...
I have to say, Independence Pass is maybe the sweetest ride in the state... There's several in close competition... but this one is definitely one of those top few...
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| *That bike makes me look like a runt!* |
Yeah... NOT... a place that this boy fits at all well...
When you're sitting on your scooter at a red light... and some "lady" walks past in the cross walk... with her high fashion straw hat... her $400 dollar sandal shoes... yadda yadda...
...gives you a glance and then with her nose in the air and turned away... walks past with her face screwed up like she's got a sour lemmon in her mouth... you KNOW... you are not in your "home" country... bwahahahahahaha...
I rolled down out of the mountains to catch a sit down lunch in Glenwood Springs... to fuel me up for the ride through Glenwood Canyon... to find no place in the Inn... at the Wolford Recreation area outside of Kremmling...
Buuuuut... the gal there at the gate called into an RV Park in town and found me a spot... Now... I'm not the RV Park sort... but I'll tell you... I rode past the RV's belly to butt... to pitch my tent on a big grassy square with one other tent... with a big ramada in between... for $13 bucks! long about HALF what a KOA tariffs a biker for.
Nice grassy camp. Hot shower and supplies just down the road a mile... Ha! I had it better than the RV'ers! :)
Next morning I finished my figure eight ride and get back to the trailer to get to work again...
... a day and some got lost with the Robin Williams news... that touched a nerve... and then it was time to get movin' again...
I spent goodly parts of those days getting the coating on the roof. First, a second scrubbing of the old roof to prepare it for the second phase... the primer... and then two coats of Kool Seal elastomeric membrane...
Just popped a fresh refrigerator cap on this morning.
Soon as I got done with the coating yesterday... and after I got re-hydrated from bein' up there in the blistering Colorado sun... must have been all of 75 ;) ... I climbed on the scooter to meet ever'body about 85 miles or so south east.
Took the kids to the Wild Life Sanctuary out east of Fort Lupton. I'll save that post for tomorrow... It's got a few pics and a good story that deserves it's own post.
In the Morning
Brian
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Those pictures of the pass a shaaawheet!!! Oh and that roof looks AMAZING. Not a small job I am sure but worth it when the rains and snows show up.
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