Saint Catherine of Sienna Roman Catholic Chapel. This beautiful church was in our way into Estes Park. They still have Mass on Wednesday mornings. Pope John Paul II has visited and they took him to buy tennis shoes so he could do a little hike nearby 😊
We made it to Estes Park Tuesday afternoon with time to relax just a little. Then we went to town for dinner at Chelitos Mexican Restaurant and some groceries for our days here. It was a beautiful ride. We stopped in Breckenridge and checked in to the HOG Rally and visited with some other friends who are up in the area as well. Today was spent riding through the Rocky Mountain National Park on Trail Ridge Road that was just opened on Thursday, lunch in Grand Lake and then back through the RMNP via TRR again. Started off warm, we stopped so far up before pulling over to put on our jackets only to stop again on our descent to take them off. Lots of curves, breathtaking views, snow and animal sightings. It’s always a good day when we ride!
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These “poles” let the snow plows know where the edge is 😳
Seriously!? On the way to the top of Trail Ridge Road we still ran into one lane only construction!
Grand Lake, CO 
This girl was carrying her woobie 😊
This cow was running at all the spectators protecting that baby!
We started out this morning a few hours later than we wanted to but the bike is now taken care of and good to go!
We crossed into New Mexico where we didn’t want to breath or talk for miles because….well cattle yards, that’s why! And it’s also home to 55-65 mph highway speeds. When you’re used to Texas and 75-85 mph it’s hard to behave with the throttle 😉
Then the winds started and didn’t let up the whole day, which btw turned into about 8 hours on the bike, but with the winds it makes it feel like 14,000,000 hours. It was hot and then we got rained on a little and it was just what we needed. We saw lots of trains too!
It was a good day to ride!
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We spent about 9 hours in the saddle today making our way to Lubbock with our friends Rickey and Connie.
We had nice weather with cool winds until somewhere between 3 and 4 pm when the 425 degree dry oven heat hit us! Then we hit the trifecta on one lane one way led by a pace car highway construction – thank goodness only one of them was caliche and then wet caliche 😑 And then it happens – flat rear tire on the highway as we were coming into town. Luckily Bryan was able to get us safely back over and into a parking lot. We were able to get Wild West Harley to come pick us up and will have the tire replaced in the morning. We were headed for a hotel for the night in Lubbock anyway so we ended up in the hotel near the Harley shop – walking distance as well as visual distance. Tom, our Harley guy, was great!
We got an Uber for dinner to & from and both elderly gentlemen were neat guys and had some stories to tell. Dinner was good too!
So now we wait for the shop to open in the morning and then get going on our way again!
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Stay tuned 😁
Tales From The Back of the Bike 