What’s the best thing to do with eight AARP members most of whom take meds for one ailment or another. If you guessed put them on motorcycles and drive a narrow two lane road with no guardrails to an altitude over 14,000 feet and then make them try to walk around you got it right.
Left Pueblo north to 24 then over to entrance to Pike’s Peak. Stopped at the ranger station to pay our entrance fee and the sign said temperature at the top was 32 with wind chill 19! Decided to put on jackets, ride up and down couldn’t have been better. The views from the top are amazing the road is incredible, and here is the best part, it was my turn to lead up and down.
Followed that up with a great ride on more Colorado two lane even managed to work in a few additional mountain passes. The 10,000 footers just don’t seem as high after Pike’s Peak, this is one incredibly beautiful state. In for the night in Dillon Colorado in a Best Western with ski lockers for each room and a beautiful view of Dillon Resovoir.
Pike's Peak was named for Zebulon Pike and inspired Katharine Bates to write America The Beautiful, the road to the top is 38 miles round trip.
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Sounds like a great scenic ride today, and no one required any oxygen for the altitude. Proves you AARP members are in pretty good shape!! Calling it a night...
xoxox
YOU FORGOT TO LEAVE ME THE KEYS TO THE'58--I'LL GET THEM FROM KRYS
I thought you were going to end that first question with...free park admission! Should have known!! Sounds gorgeous!
Xoxo
Barn,
I'm not even sure where the keys are...don't think I'm allowed to know. You can still come over.
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