Awesome day today. We were wiped out last night and I think we must have slept 10 hours easy. Those 350+ miles yesterday did us in. But we made it!
First order of business was to catch up with our new found cousin, and genealogy expert, Laura. Her favorite breakfast place was just around the corner and we met there at 9:00 and caught up for an hour or more. She tipped us off to the extensive fires in Utah which explains the haziness yesterday, so we may need to rethink going too much further west. We are related from a bunch of generations back and we are hoping we can talk more about old mutual relatives. And she rides a motorcycle!
We decided to go back up Boulder Canyon (Rt 119) and then head toward Aspen, where our nephew Troy and his wife Chris live. Lots of great photo-ops so lots of stops. I did figure out how to take pictures while moving, but lets just say either me or my phone were going to go skidding down the pavement, and it did not work out.
We had a few constructions waits so some breaks (bikes off so they do not overheat).
We dropped into Black Hawk, which is kinda painful to see. Lots of ritzy casinos in a beautiful canyon. Who wants to be inside at a game table when all the great stuff is outside the window. Really out of place in my humble opinion.
Rt 119 took us to the interstate, Rt 70. Lots of traffic and lots of trucks. Couple tunnels and a couple stops for pictures. We hopped off on Rt 91 at Copper Mt ski area where I used to ski 40 years ago (yikes). Very light traffic and smooth road all the way to the turnoff to Independence Pass.
This road is beautiful and twists and climbs all the way up and over the pass. Almost no traffic which was delightful, our own custom built road.
We stopped at the top for pictures and met a nice young guy on a Yamaha FZ-10 which was a real beauty. He had 300 miles on it and was just breaking it in. He wouldn't need a girlfriend with a bike like that for sure. We saw him further down the other side of the pass standing in the pouring rain next to his brand new bike. How romantic..
We pulled into Aspen about 4:30 and Dave's GPS found Troy & Chris's place. We got caught up with them for a couple/few hours and headed to our hotel in Glenwood Springs. Really nice late day ride with dry warm evening air. Looks like the fires are in western Utah so we should be good to go for Moab tomorrow. Unless we change our minds.
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