Day 23 Saturday 7th August 2010
Steamboat Springs to Glenwood Springs 296 miles 560klms
Wow what a day, started out with another brilliant road. Vic and Alan were cruising around corners and having a good time when a passing law enforcer switched on his pretty lights and u-turned to catch and pull both of them over – it turns out we were in a 50 mph zone and were well over this.
After some smooth talking by Alan both of them ended up with a caution and told if they were caught breaking any further road laws in Colorado they would be heavily fined. Rest of the day was good for videoing. We will be in Utah tomorrow and the caution will not count there..Bummer fast again
Alan had planned to take a pass to do a loop through Aspen, the excellent road turned to gravel and some people who were there with quads warned Alan the Mustang would have difficulties getting through. So we backtracked through a town called Basalt and took the main road to Aspen – turned out Aspen is just as busy in summer as it is in winter and it was chock a block full of tourists, we were unable to find a parking spot so decided to ride on to Leadville. Only the rich and famous hang out here so we were outa there.
We went over Independence Pass to a height of 12,300 feet and stopped for a photo shoot,the road was just beautiful, then to Leadville where there was a street festival Back to Boom Days on and had a late lunch of pork ribs.Then we headed back to Glenwood Springs and it started to rain we were ok had out wet weather gear on but the Red mustang had its top down Again, We did not get to wet
Going out for nibbles and a soothing beer. Back again had Mexican and it was good tucker
Life doesn’t get any better than this.. till tomorrow
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