Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Aspen, Colorado

Aspen Colorado and I’m staying downtown tonight…checkout the accommodations and the creek. Thanks to David, Tom, Jason and Scott for pointing me to the island in the downtown park and apparently the cops are pretty easy going that as long as they can’t see the tent from the road, should be ok. Now trying to figure out where to park the bike so as not to bring attention to myself and according to Steve, Aspen’s best bartender says the locals, park in residential. Found out in this town if you have too much to drink and leave your vehicle for the night, good chance it’ll get towed…just the kind of decision a drunk needs - should I take the chance on a DUI or pay for towing.

Took too long to get out of Denver, but that’s because things just weren’t going according to plan. Did get a couple loads of laundry done to wipe away the New Mexican dust, but things from there, well, ok, no plan, but you do kinda have an idea what you want to do. For starters found a local Best Buy to see if they could help with the camera, but no, not without sending it in to Canon and don’t have the time for that, that is unless you can go without the pictures. Time to move on and find a Harley shop that can help with some more nuts that have vibrated loose as well as a rattle…remember, that’s why women like riding Harleys. Thanks to Darrin for taking good care of me and getting me on my way, now if I could fix the squeak in the front brakes, I’d be happy.

Ran out of gas again, but thankfully the exit had a gas station. The bike definitely likes this higher altitude though cuz for those gear heads, I’ve gone from 32 mpg to about 40…not the greatest of gas mileage, but still trying to get this fuel injection figured out. Ended up back at the same place I had to call from the find the Harley dealer, but this time it was time to put the rain gear on. Didn’t get far from there because according to Darrin; remember from the Harley shop, a stop at Idaho Springs for something to eat is a must. Hit the Buffalo and had a great Buffalo burger and was almost talked into spending the day to relax, do the gold mine tour and hot springs, but eventually things started clearing up that it was time to move on…yep, I was that close.

What a spectacular view along the way. Made the trip west from Denver over the mountains and got to Vail, nice little downtown for a ski town, but looked pretty quiet. What an awesome ride and I mean awesome taking the Independence Pass from there to Aspen. The pass has only been open for a week because of the snow and traitorous driving, but hey, open just in time for me to take. Ok, so the camera only worked when it wanted to, but there were stretches that I just enjoyed the turn backs and again, get too close to the edge and if you go over, forget about coming back. You can see from the pictures that there’s still a lot of snow along the way and yep, it was cold, but still an unbelievable ride.

Ok, now why Aspen, and especially Little Annie’s, well, first of all, Aspen is a beautiful place to be and thought, hey, lets party with the rich and famous. Now Little Annie’s though, well, ran into Michelle and Rachel standing in front of this place saying it was the place to party in Aspen…oh, yea and it has the best bartender in Aspen, so gotta take their word for it. Am having a great time and tomorrow I should be able to make up some ground, wait a minute, I have all the time in the world, right? well, much more country to cover so more Colorado to see…awesome riding. Here are the awesome pics.

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