Well as some of you may know...Mark and I celebrated our 30 th wedding anniversary August 3, 2008. We left our house Saturday morning around 11:30 to be gone for just a couple of days. Take a nice motorcycle ride up into the mountains and just make it Mark and I. We had planned to stay in Walden (which is a beautiful ride) but for a couple of different reasons we weren't able to secure a room for the night....no big deal we would ride through Steamboat Springs and on into Craig for the night. Here is some of the scenery that we rode through to get to Craig.
Now I have to give up my secret, I found out a few summer back that if I put my camera on "sport" while I am on the bike I don't have to stop for everything that I think is cool. I just hold the camera up and start shooting.....usually I have just a couple that don't turn out. But as you can see we saw some beautiful country side and never stopped for one of these pictures. Well the one of Mark we did...that is where Masonville Road and the Poudre Canyon meet.
So as we headed out of Steamboat Springs...yep some of those clouds that you see in the back ground of some of these pictures...they are delivering rain and they delivered it right on top of us. We have had no rain at our house for weeks and we go to the mountains and you guessed it, rain! But we pushed through with what felt like needles hitting our face, to get into Craig. We pull up to the 'holiday inn express' there are several bikes there. Most of the heading to sturgis, we stand at the desk and ask the lady for a room...reservations? nope! sorry no rooms available. I then asked if they knew of any other hotel/motel with a room. nope! nothing as there was some big oil convention going on....great! Well we will just head to Meeker...about another hour away. We get into Meeker....just a couple of hotel/motels in that big city (just kidding). We pull up to this place that their little red light indicates that they have 'vacancies'...great! We walk up to the door, sign reads "we have gone to the county fair to bid on some pigs, we will be back at 8 pm. The time is a little bit before 7 and then the question is do we want to chance that they really do have rooms and then some guy tells us that the rooms are $95 a night...what for this place. No thank you! So I get out my phone and get onto 'live search' thank goodness for that. We find a place in Silt, Co they have two rooms...the gal says to me that they are 'smoking' rooms...is that still legal in the state of Colorado? We tell her that we will be there by 8:30, that we are going to get something to eat and then head there. Silt is just 7 miles east of Rifle. We go to the gas station to gas the bikes up, and stop at this burger place right next door. I order and we get our food. I told Mark that he had .48 cents from a 20 dollar bill...for two hamburgers, one order of fries and two drinks....what??? But hey I have to say I would have paid 20 dollars for just one of those hamburgers...( I wonder if they bought there beef at the same county fair as the other people were buying their pig). I am keeping the name of the place a secret, if they become to famous they might change their hamburger. After eating off we head to Silt, we get behind this semi and he is hauling, but in the horizon you can see that it is going to rain, you can never tell since we didn't really know how the road went. We stop and put on our rain gear....thank heaven for rain gear....we get back on the bikes and again off we head. Well you guessed it, rain blow sideways at us, on your bare skin face, really doesn't feel to good. But we pressed on through and arrived at Silt just about 8:40....yep she had held our room. Nice clean place, which we had to pay a $10 key deposit. This place didn't even have a credit card key thing a ma jing. But again it was clean and place to bed down for the night. The next morning we get up and into the shower I go...now what I didn't tell you is that when we where packing to leave on this trip I had taken my blow dryer out of the pack indicating to Mark that all hotels have a blow dryer in the rooms. Well this hotel that still used a key, didn't have a blow dryer and to boot I didn't bring a comb or brush...yes I used my finger and figured I was on the motorcycle...wind blown hair should work. Also, on my handy little phone and 'live search' we looked to see where the closest Harley dealership was. Right there...the first words where Aspen, great that is where we are going, so we can stop there since they indicated that they opened at 10 am on Sunday's. As we went through Glenwood Springs we saw a Harley dealership and thought we will have to stop there some other time as they weren't open yet. Once in Aspen we pulled out my phone and went to that special place 'live search' to find the exact address of the dealership. Yep, right there on the screen....'Aspen Valley Harley Davidson' "Glenwood Springs"....oh are you kidding me. The very dealership that we passed at 9:30 was the one that we wanted to go to...but we wanted it to be located in Aspen after all isn't that what the name said. Oh it pays to read the whole screen...we laughed and on we went.
Next stop 'Independence Pass' oh my goodness was it worth it, the scenery was absolutely breath taking, we saw a old ghost town and while at the ghost town we looked up to yet see more black storm clouds rolling at us, we started up the hill to the bikes, the bathroom and to put our gear on....we didn't move fast enough. This time finishing the trek up the hill we experienced RAIN, HAIL and yes that beloved SNOW. But honestly it didn't really matter. We got a little wet, but we still were having a great time. We came down off the pass, headed to Buena Vista..stopped at Jan's to eat, the burgers were OK, but nothing like our place in Meeker. Coming out of the restaurant..yep you guessed it rain again....we geared up and headed off..heading to Salida, Canon City, Pueblo and up I-25 home. Other then some rain...OK a lot of rain, we had a great time, didn't live by a schedule and had a great get a way.......711 miles and a great time! Since I did this blog without inserting pictures I will have to do them on the next blog....
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