BwanaDik
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Day One: Santa Fe, NM to Montrose, CO
Bambi and I trailered the Feej from Houston to a friends house in Santa Fe. Neither of us were real big on taking two days of rolling the slab in the 100F Texas heat to get to Santa Fe. So into the truck we went and off to New Mexico, taking just one looong day.
Next morning (Saturday), we were packed and ready to go. We went up Highway 501/502 thru Los Alamos. Beautiful country. One new addition to me was a set of guard gates at the entrance to the labs. Haven’t been by there since 1995 so I figure it must be some 9/11 thing. We were going to go up 126 but we’d done it already on a previous trip.
Up the hill towards Los Alamos
Grand Valley
Then on to 550 thru the high plains toward CO.
I had read a brief ride report from OBFJR but with no pics, it didn’t do the route justice. Million Dollar Hwy barely describes it. Bambi and I have ridden in Switzerland a couple of times and this is the first time I’ve seen anything close to there, including Glacier.
Bambi and I were trying to master a new technique in photography. Basically having our “point and shoot” digitals on a neck strap with the camera tucked into an upper pocket of our gear. Took a day or so to get the hang of it but we finally came thru.
The town of Ouray at the northern end of the passes
Continued on to Montrose, just to get in the extra 50-60 miles instead of staying in Ouray. Had I known what a cool, if not a little too quaint, town it is, I think we would have stayed there.
Day One=368 miles
Bambi and I trailered the Feej from Houston to a friends house in Santa Fe. Neither of us were real big on taking two days of rolling the slab in the 100F Texas heat to get to Santa Fe. So into the truck we went and off to New Mexico, taking just one looong day.
Next morning (Saturday), we were packed and ready to go. We went up Highway 501/502 thru Los Alamos. Beautiful country. One new addition to me was a set of guard gates at the entrance to the labs. Haven’t been by there since 1995 so I figure it must be some 9/11 thing. We were going to go up 126 but we’d done it already on a previous trip.
Up the hill towards Los Alamos
Grand Valley
Then on to 550 thru the high plains toward CO.
I had read a brief ride report from OBFJR but with no pics, it didn’t do the route justice. Million Dollar Hwy barely describes it. Bambi and I have ridden in Switzerland a couple of times and this is the first time I’ve seen anything close to there, including Glacier.
Bambi and I were trying to master a new technique in photography. Basically having our “point and shoot” digitals on a neck strap with the camera tucked into an upper pocket of our gear. Took a day or so to get the hang of it but we finally came thru.
The town of Ouray at the northern end of the passes
Continued on to Montrose, just to get in the extra 50-60 miles instead of staying in Ouray. Had I known what a cool, if not a little too quaint, town it is, I think we would have stayed there.
Day One=368 miles