Well, Anne and I started out just before 6pm on 2 Jul in the truck with the bike stored securely in the trailer....we met Steve (a little late) at the Masspike rest area near 495. We loaded his bike up and headed west. We travelled the Mass pike all the way west, then the NYS Thruway all the way west to Erie and continued through Cleveland as Dawn broke. We kept going west through the rest of Ohio into Indiana and Illinois. While travelling through Iowa, we did stop at the Hawkeye dealer for a break and a shirt of course. We continued west through Omaha and decided to call it a night around 7pm on 3 Jul in Lincoln, NE after 26 hours of driving stopping only for diesel.
We left Lincoln in the morning and continued west to Colorado...we stopped at the Greely dealer for a break and to check out their open house. From there we continued to Loveland where we checked into the new Embassy suites. We walked over to Thunder MT HD where the skies opened up and the rain fell hard...being tough bikers we called the hotel to send their shuttle to pick us up.
We then climbed into the truck and drove to Craig's (TALON) house where he was great enough to let us leave the truck and trailer for a couple of weeks. We stayed there for several hours enjoying their tasty food and Beer! While there the rain started again and we considered leaving the trailer and taking the truck back to the hotel but the rain let up just before sundown allowing us to ride back to the hotel for the night.
In the morning, we met Craig at 0800 since he and a couple of friends were joining us for the Ride through Rocky MT NP.
Following Craig and friends through the canyon leading to RMNP:
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Topic: WFPs & Mungam: Loveland to the Hood and back (Almost!) (Read 6331 times)