I-70 half way across Kansas
Old Drug Store sign in WaKeeney
Sunset on Day 1
Day 1 - KOA camp WaKeeney, KS
Wheat fields, Kansas
I liked western Kansas
Kansas - Colorado Boarder
Eastern Colorado
First Glimpse of the Rockies in the distance
Garden of the gods, just outside Colorado Springs
Garden of the gods
Balancing rock
Road to Pikes Peak
Snowing (whiteout-see the car in front...no, either could I) near the top of Pikes Peak
Top of Pikes Peak
Cog train at top of Pikes Peak
Brrrrrr!
Gravel section of road down from Pikes Peak
Road down from Pikes Peak
Fox looking for free food at the visitor center
Gravel road down from Pikes Peak
Lake & mountains
Never mind the bears, look out for these things!
Outlook
Enterance to Pikes Peak
Outside Mountain Park, CO
Lake
Field & cows
Muddy gravel road is a price you pay to be the first motorcycle to the top of Pikes Peak this year, they just opened the road a short time before I got there!
Chippy
Day 2 - Campsite in State Park near Mountain Park, CO
Chinese leftovers for breakfast...yum!
Better picture the next morning from just outside Mountain Park, CO
Road to Estes Park
Road up to Mt Evans
Road to Mt Evans
Top of Mt Evans
Friendly Mountain Goat Family at the top of Mt Evans
Baby Mountain Goat at the top of Mt Evans
" What you lookin at?, never seen a mountain goat eat snow before?"
Road down from Mt Evans
Elk in Rocky Mountains National Park
Rocky Mountains National Park
Sleet in Rocky Mountains National Park
Road to Waldon, CO
Bullwinkle in Rocky Mountains National Park
Lake & Mountains near Twin Lakes, CO
Day 3 - KOA Kosy Kabin for frosty 3rd night
Humming Birds at the KOA
Near Waldon, CO
Between Steamboat Springs and Vail, CO
Interesting rock
Heading to Independance Pass
Independance Pass
Coming down from Independance Pass
Heading to Montrose
Nice creek with high flow due to snow melt
Little Waterfall
Waterfall
Day 4 - Kosy Kabin for the night in Delta, CO
Road construction, not a good start to Day 5, It only goes for 5 miles or so
Waiting for this coal train at a level crossing
Waiting for that coal train at the level crossing
North Rim road, not sure what the rim is of??
Much nicer in real life, but this gives you an idea
Green lake in some canyon
Great roads all day
downstream from blue mesa dam
Blue Mesa dam with hydro generator
Blue Mesa dam
Sheep....mmmmm Lamb!
Sign for Black Canyon...duh!
Black Canyon NP
Black Canyon
Nice facilities everywhere
uh-oh, could be rain.
Phew, no rain, just hail. But nice hail, more like little pellets of snow, sort of soft.
Nothing to do, but stop and wait it out
Rugged trees, they did tell me the name but I forgot
Fancy Loo
Road to Montrose
The other Olathe!, not the one in KC
Grand Mesa, was cold on top, only 39 deg
Island Lake on Grand Mesa
Pine forest on Grand Mesa
Road down from Grand Mesa
Road to Grand Junction
Just outside Grand Junction
Colorado National Monument
Day 5 - Camp in Grand Junction, CO
Nice green valleys
Beautiful
Whats this up ahead
It's a good old fashioned cattle drive
And the cowboys (oops cowpersons) are getting younger
And they rode off into the sunset
Nice
Beauty
And it goes on and on
Red cliffs overhanging the road
I followed these two building modules and their six pilot escorts for fifty miles. at 20ft wide there was no chance to overtake, so I just tuned into their cb frequency and listened in on their conversations
Road into Telluride
Telluride main street
Another street in Telluride
Gondela ski lift
Me in a Gondela
Road to Cortez
Road past Cortez going to four corners
Four corners monument (spot where four states meet, CO, UT, AZ, NM)
Day 6 - Camp at Cortez, CO
Now onto Utah
Great red rock formations
Approaching Monument Valley
Did'nt know the Goldwing was a dirt bike
Red landscape
Butt
Mexican Hat rock
Monument Valley
Indian markets everywhere
I think this dude was trying to tell me something
Arizona here I come
Leaving Monument valley behind
Northern Arizona Landscape
Great Desert landscapes
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon Sth Rim
Road at Grand Canyon Sth Rim
Grand Canyon NP...awww they have nice little puddy cats
Day 7 - Camp at Wilson, CO
Male Elk outside Flagstaff, AZ
Flagstaff, AZ
Red Rock Canyon, AZ
Near Sedona, AZ
Kim-Chi.....mmmm
Sedona, AZ
Cottonwood, AZ
South of Winslow, AZ
Route 66, Winslow, AZ
I-40 east of Flagstaff, AZ
Approaching Meteor Crator near Winslow, AZ
Meteor Crator near Winslow, AZ
Small piece of the Meteorite that struck the earthe here, this piece was about 2ft long and weighed 1000lbs. The whole meteorite was 150 ft long.
Petrified Forest NP
Painted Desert and Petrified Wood
Painted Desert
Day 8 - My motel in Springerville, AZ
Landscape around Springerville
Soon got into the mountains and some nice pine forest
Mountains in Eastern Aizona
This guy was keeping a eye on me
Great sweeper bends and nice views
Landscape coming down off the mountain
Catus
Copper mine near Clifton, AZ
The road passes right through the Copper mine near Clifton, AZ
Lower elevation in Eastern Arizona
Winding roads
My 5th State so far on this trip
See the deer center of the picture, I'm glad he went right and not left!
Getting drier
And flatter
Heading to Las Cruses, NM
Looking over Las Cruses
Marachi (spelling) band at dinner
My Cafe in Mesilla (historic area)
Plaza in Mesilla
Day 9 - Camp at Las Cruses, NM
White Sands Visitors Center
Built in the 1930's, This adobe style building is typical for the area
8 mile road into the heart of the dunes
Top of a Yukka (spelling?) has the ability to grow taller quickly, so what looks like a 3ft Yukka on top of that 30 ft dune, might be a 33ft tall Yakka!
top of the dunes
one of many parking spots, people are free to climb and walk on the dunes
Gives you an idea of the height of this dune, top of that yellow bag is about 5ft
I liked the line of this dune against the blue sky. This place would be awesome at sunrise, or sunset
Watch out little Yukka, you're about to get run over by a sand dune.
amazing how these plants adapt
more dunes
This is how they keep the roads and parking lots clear
In the mountains in New Mexico
Took a detour into Ruidoso, NM
The sign in the background says Welcome to Roswell, NM....That alian infested town!
Just messing around getting a picture of the wing on train tracks
Got tired of the interstate, thought I'd try train tracks
Straight roads, flat desert land
and more straight roads and flat land
ditto
um.....I guess I'm in Texas
Feed Lot near Hereford, TX. Beef capital of the world (at least that's what the sign up the road said)
Great steak dinner in Amarillo. They have a challenge at this place, if you can eat their 72oz steak, baked potato, salad and bread roll in under an hour, you get the meal for free. Otherwise you pay $72.
Day 10 Campsite, Amarillo, TX
on the road again
between the wheat and the railroad
and others farm wind
My 7th state
Day 11 - Campsite for tonight!
