Our day started comically. Whoever came up with the "Round about traffic Control" idea was a dement individual and I hope they spend eternity chasing their imaginary tail in a warm place. We entered the circle from hades and made the first right onto what we thought was I-70 there were 2 rights on this 5 exit round about???? We wound up in a rest area with a cool helicopter mounted on a pole. Second attempt a truck pulled from the first of 2 right turns blocking Stephanie from exiting onto I-70. This was an omen that we needed caffeine and abandoned the circle from hades and drove straight ahead to the Burger King for a caffeine fix. No sooner did we sit down to start our caffeine injections one of our SPOT followers busted Stephanie via text saying Burger King wasn't the breakfast of champions. That made our day and almost made us forget about that stupid round about. Caffeine levels stable we attempted the circle again and the third time was a charm we were on the interstate!!!
The next 3 hours to Denver were beautiful. The interstate followed the Colorado River most of the way to the Rockies. The engineers designing this highway should have won some kind of award. The westbound lanes on pillars towering above the eastbound lanes in places, it's really hard to describe most roads you travel and never notice the structure. This road grabs your attention almost as much as the scenery around you. Then there are the ski towns Vail, Copper, Arrowhead, Breckenridge and others awesome to see from the road. Several old mining towns reinvented as tourist traps are along the way one of which we stopped for the rest area. While getting ready to leave a gentleman stopped to chat bikes with us and told us of the snow ahead towards Denver.... NO!!! We had been driving in comfortable low 60's all morning, surely he was wrong. As we started the last few summits towards Denver the temp started dropping, all the way down to 35... yea above freezing!!! On the final summit we could see white pine trees up high, pine trees don't come from the factory in a white color.... not good. There was a dense white fog veiling the summit but no snow! Then it seemed like the fog was freezing to the grass, trees and shrubs but the not road, the road was clear. Made it through the Denver combat driving course unscathed only to come to an incident on the "should be an open road" about 30 miles east of town. Stephanie and I got separated being expelled off the interstate on different exits but thankfully in the only area we actually knew. We met up about a half hour later found a safe spot to get off the interstate and pulled the cork on a bourbon bottle and looked at each other and said WOW! Too close to give details but it was close enough for me to take a drink and drive afterwards( this even amazed Steph something I don't do ).
The temp from the final pass before Denver never got above 44 and by the time we got to a hotel I was shivering. Took the longest hot shower I've ever had and calling it a night.
We have bout 950 miles to go to get home. We lost another hour in a time zone today and hopefully will lose another tomorrow because that means we are almost home.
Great day of riding and I love that my honey has great reflexes a cool head in a tight situations. Great job baby!!
Oh yeah enjoy the only pic I took today... LOL
I love you Kevin!
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