A smiley start at the MN border

When I say a start I mean: part two of the journey, I'd already made my way up from the furthest corner of New Mexico, it took four days to reach my old home in Duluth Minnesota, 1,800 miles. I was scenery strolling through Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and a little spa in Northen New Mexico called Ojo Caliente. Really you have got to check that place out sometime. Nothing could have felt better to me after 8 hours of desert riding than to sit in a natural mineral bath hot spring! It's $21 for camping (not advertised too much) which includes the use of the entire spa. Really gotta check it out! www.ojocalientespa.com

another rock in colorado

getting near the four corners area... notice the amount of gear i decided to take with me. . my jacket and two helmets bulk up the load. the nice thing about traveling light is avoiding the daily pack/unpack hassle. i had enough to get by, KOA usually has a laundry facility to help me feel new again. although next time i will bring SOMETHING that is not black!

a girl and her motorcycle

me, my motorcycle, and a big rock in Colorado.

A Note From Flagstaff

August 18th 2005 : Flagstaf Arizona. This was not in the original plan but here I am. Adventures have to unfold of their own energy. I guess if it happened any other way they would not be so adventurous. I bypassed Sturgis and missed my friends in Montana due to time closing in on me. I decided to cross the midwest - AGAIN! I've never been very inclined to see so much of Kansas, but there I was day after day, eager to get to through the gates of God's Country Colorado. No matter how long the wait was in those little corn communities of Kansas, Colorado is always worth the wait. It was about the fourth morning out that I finally returned to the mountatins. Like my home away from home, earth that i crave, air so crisp, thin, and clean; curved roads doing their best to compliment the contours of their mountain home. A lovely ride. So good in fact that BMW has called the ride on 550 from Montrose to Durango one of the best rides in the counrty. I must agree, and I didn't even get to make the complete loop back up thru the neighboring range to Telluride, but I will return for this ride again in the future. But then again we don't truly step in to the same river twice.