DAYS 17, 18, 19

Started day 17 still in Oklahoma finished day 19 in Montrose Colorado, there's more but that just about covers it. The roads have been exceptional with wide open spaces interspersed with cattle and farms. Driving across the panhandle of Oklahoma is long straight roads lightly travelled and very green. You see beautiful farmhouses setting well back from the road and large turn of the century homes in complete disrepair abandoned with twenty to thirty year old cars rusting in the yards.

As we entered New Mexico we all started to realize that this years spring trip is winding down, but not wanting it to end early we turned north into Colorado before stopping for the end of day 18. Awoke for day 19 and headed north a few miles before turning west with a vague plan to cross the rockies. At one point we topped a little pass and there before us were the rockies, rising thousands of feet in the air, covered with snow against a blue and white skie. After some map checking found a new route, new to us anyway, over the mountains at only 10,200 feet! The pass came with a few minutes of hail, rain and wind, not enough to slow us down but the kind that makes you sit up and pay attention.

We're just wastin' gas, woah
Blurring them dotted lines
Killing all kinds of time
Baby, like we ain't coming back, woah
Steal a kiss, maybe two
Pull it off for a few
Gonna hang as long as I can
You know I don't give it a damn
If we're just wastin' gas

Every once in a while
It'll backfire like a gun
I see that needle creeping down
Like a setting sun
Making every little memory one of a kind
You and I riding high all night
Dallas Smith

Using up all three weeks, one day at a time. Looking forward to being home still enjoying the journey.

On a different not when we crossed I-40 in the morning on day 18 Bruce let us know that he needed to get home, Jake went with, don't want him riding alone, and Jake's bike was starting to sound worse than before the repair in Florida.