LOL, I know it’s time to update the blog when my brother calls and asks if everything is OK, since I have not updated in a few days!
So, let’s start where I left off…….
Monday Elvis and I departed Frisco, CO. Worst hotel of the trip. IF YOU ARE EVER IN FRISCO, CO…….DON’T STAY AT THE SNOWSHOE MOTEL! You would have thunk I had learned my leson last big trip about asking if they had A/C! NOT! The rooms had these sagging beds they looked like hammocks with bedspreads on them. The place was also filthy. The windows had a window fan sitting ( I thought) on the ledge. The great thing about being on the first floor, everyone can look into your room as they walk by. Finally, I was like WTF, I pulled off my shorts and just keep working in my boxers! “You want to look, I want to show you!” And then, everytime checkin boy came out to smoke…..right into the room thanks to the CWFCS (central widow fan cooling system) It finally got time to go to bed and I decided I would move the fan to the dresser and pull the curtains (I figured I had already made a name for myself!)
There I went “figuring.” The fans were nailed and wired to the ledge and the windows! No moving them. So, your choices were to sleep with the curtains open to try and stay cool. (I sleep naked just in case you were wondering) or pull the curtains and get no air flow! What to do, what to do! I pulled the curtains and looped them over the fan. I’m not that big of pervert!
We pulled out around 10AM to let it warm up a bit. The only saving grace to the bad hotel was my friend did tell me about Loveland Pass over toward Evergreen where I was meeting my buddy Bob for lunch. It was a gorgeous ride. If in the area, must ride!
Enroute to Evergreen, Elvis and I decided to ride to the top of Mt Evans! I wish I could upload the video to this, but I won’t be able to until I get home. Over 14,000′ high, no guard rails and narrow!
Check back after I get back home and can do some video editing!
We made it up and back unscathed! Hit the loop over toward Evergreen to have lunch with Bob. I forgot to add that Elvis had decided to head East after lunch. My plans did not include heading home for another week or so. Met my old friend Bob Sugg for lunch at the Little Bear Biker Bar in Evergreen. If ever in the area, stop by! Had lunch, Bob offered to host Elvis and I for the night. I decided to accept the offer, but Elvis headed on out. Talked to him later and he was lucky enough to hook up with three other bikers from Charlotte in the KS area and was going to ride the rest of the way in with them. I was glad for his safety. Made me feel a lot better.
I followed Bob home to his gorgeous house in the mountains. Bob was one of the first Captains I ever flew with at the airlines and is the one who taught me how to fly fish. His wife still flies for Delta. Bob and Cathy have one son in the Naval Academy and one applying now for both the Naval and AF Academy. It was a good short day and Bob even did my laundry. More about HB BR 101 later!
Got up and headed for South Fork, CO. Just a great relaxing ride. Just brisk enough for a jacket. The wind was blowing through the mountains and the Aspen leaves were turning with the wind. The opposing colors of the top and bottom of an Aspen leaf reminded me of the old lamps with the plastic “leafs” hanging down ( like in a cheap bar in the Philipines not that I have ever been into one. My Navy buddies told me about them) I stopped in Bunea Vista, CO at the Coyote Cantina. All I can if you are ever by, stop in!
Roy Rogers