Hey!
It was great meeting youze guys and actually putting a face to the names. I could use a shot of the Captain Morgan about now. Keep the pictures coming, I'm glad you kept your trip report seperate too. More to look at.

Flatty just kills me... people like him are the salt of the earth.

Man, am I glad you guys decided to show up... made for even more laughter than we already had.

good stuff, geez some of you lot really cover some ground! it;s nuts - but in a good way

Enjoyed the beautiful pictures. More!

Great pics, it was really nice meeting you guys.

A Little Reminder for You Two Northern Boyz
 

TomTom herinnert u eraan om veilig te rijden tijdens de feestdagen! - YouTube

It will put this out of mind.

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Tom and I felt we might miss out on the rally experience, as we were stuck in Air-conditioned motels, while you guys had fun in the rain, heat and bugs. So when we spotted this, we thought next time we will get one and join the camping scene.

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We didn't even know there was a F550!

Tom would still need a wing man, just to get to the spare tire, should he have a flat.

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Of course we wouldn't need to strap up tarps to sit under, we could just sit here.

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Well after drought and fires, wouldn’t you know rain would be in the forecast when we arrived. You’re welcome CO. Another cold wet morning, with forecast for afternoon thunder showers and heavy downpours. On the way we caught some sun and a train snaking its way down the valley.

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Beautiful blue sky and puffy clouds prevailed most of the morning.

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We headed to Steamboat again, dodging rain along the way, found some delightful small roads that twisted and turned, nothing technical, just entertaining sweepers.


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We stopped for a quick snack in steamboat and headed out over rabbit ear pass. I have to say, CO has nice views, and decent roads , but there is a lot of traveling to get to the good ones. We spied heavy rain and lightning in our path back to Granby , so stopped and geared up for rain.

I subscribed to XM weather that shows up on the GPS screen, it was GREAT, although there is a limited amount of roads to circumnavigate around it, it did come into our decision process of how long to linger, or whether we should stop or boogie through.

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Again we got back just before the steady hard rain hit.

Mr. Fog, where is the long winding road before the GPS shot?

That was going to Steamboat from the S and west, we took the 134 off of 40 W of Kremmling. then up the 134 to 20 mile road (co rd 27) then cut in to Steamboat on Co rd 33, MUCH nicer ride than 40 for sure.

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LMAO. This double entendre is priceless.

I wanted to draw a line on the door labeled " MUST BE THIS TALL TO RIDE".

Sky’s cleared late and gave us hope for a good day to visit Rocky Mountain national park the next day. Sure enough, bright sunshine and temps in the 40’s delayed our start. We got under way and headed to the park.

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We finally got out of the way of some cars in front of us ;), and were running at a comfortable, yet conservative pace. We stopped to take a pic or two and headed out again, about a mile up, here comes a ranger around a bend, and he immediately hits the lights. We pulled over and he swung around and told us to drive to a pull out a mile up. He asked for documents and said he clocked us at 46 in a 35. We waited as he talked on the radio and wrote out some warnings, thank heavens, we thought it was going to be a costly stop and we would have to skip a good meal tonight.

The park is beautiful, but a bit boring at 35, so we just rode like old ladies and took a bunch of pictures.

We exited the park to ride some roads on the E side, and decided we didn’t want to back track through the park, so we headed south to swing back to Granby from the S. All was good until it came time to run back over the Berthoud pass, at 11K + feet high. We swung into a gas station and switched to rain gloves and watch the Radar, it looked like we would be out of the heavy stuff in 10 -15 minutes so we waited under cover of the pump island. If finally slowed down so we headed out, rode most of the way back on wet roads and in light rain. Then off to another fantastic meal ;)


Dinner was SO good the first two nights, we headed back, and had another fantastic meal, this is some of the best and most interesting food I have had in a long time. Who would have “thunk” it, a world class meal in Granby CO!

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Tom giving the obligatory salute.

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Headed back to the motel and to a wonderful sunset, to cap off our time in Granby.

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That is one sweet, special pic.

I've been pulled over by the park rangers. Just a warning as well. Now I re-tune the ride expectations when passing through the park and just go-with-the-flow. But go very early in the morning (It's open 24/7), which I've done a couple of times, and it is lonely and more sporting. http://www.farson.com/smiley/nod.gif

And how about that, Granby! Paused there for lunch three days ago.

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Thats lots of snow!
Richard great photos ! What a great trip.

After a few days of climbing trees in this heat and humidity that snow and the thought of higher elevations is looking pretty inviting.

I just realized that when we count the heads including the photog...we could be the dirty dozen!

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Is that calamari on FOG's plate?

the man LUVS onion rings.

Day 6 in Co, was a move day. We had loaded up the night before and took a 2-1/2 hour ride S to Fairplay CO.

The hotel was at 10,000+ feet! The recent claim to fame is it is the Infamous 'South Park" . I am still not sure who killed Kenny, but there were a lot of shady looking people around:D

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I don't know if I wore Tom out, the great Granby food weighed him down, or he just wanted to caress his red hot Italian. Either way, he decided to take a break from riding and clean the dirty duc.

Colorado has a lot of great roads, but a lot of this too. So you just wick it up and enjoy the distant scenery.

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Headed for some back roads, and some I knew were dirt. Headed S then back N on a county road through the pike national forest. Road was paved, but awash with the red sand and gravel from recent storm, but that was good as it filled in the plentiful potholes!

Some beautiful scenery and little traffic.

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A little further up the road, I stopped here, took me a few minutes to realize this is the place Mr Farson snapped his HP2 pic. I can see why, beautiful spot!

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As usual skies started to turn ominous in the afternoon, I checked the radar and saw that to the East, storms were building fast,

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Sooooooo.........., I headed East into the storms. Why, I like little roads and I was not ready to head back yet.

I headed for a small high pass, on a road that looked interesting and Sfarsons book said was fun.

Sure enough, it was, IMHO one of the best in CO. Dirt, narrow rough pavement, new blacktop, little traffic, great views, and a lot of fun, aside from the ridiculously low speed limits. Luckily the rain had moved on and I had a window of nice weather.


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Back over Hoosier pass to Fairplay. Tom was well rested and we headed to the Irish pub next door, which only had Mexican cuisine, and terrible at that. Worst meal of the trip.