Goin' Green Ride

March 6, 2009
Fort Collins, CO

Finally! Sunny skies. Warmer weather. After last week's rain and snow from Colorado to Oklahoma to Texas we are goin' green in northern Colorado. And we think it is about darn time!

This is the first time we've been out on The Ride together since our return from parts south early-early-early Monday morning although Tim rides to work every day. We began our day with a ride up and over the dam to Vern's for some go-juice...







We rode north toward windy Wyoming as far as painted rock, turned around and rode south back through Fort Collins to Loveland. The rock has been painted and re-painted through the years, probably because it sits so close to the higway. Someone painted an American flag on it once. We much prefer a patriotic theme to the save whatever and other agenda-based art that adorn it - today's message was something about a cowboy vote.

Eventually we found ourselves at Thunder Mountain Harley-Davidson where we had some minor warranty business to attend to and we purchased a different passenger pillion for The Ride. The Country Shuttle (Thunder Mountain's Limo) was parked outside the service department.



We spoke with a friendly rider from southern New Mexico who said he had two days off so he rode as far north as he could get before having to turn back to get home in time for work tomorrow. Thunder Mountain was the turn around point. He told us he worked in the oil fields near Eastland and Cisco Texas a good many years back before the bottom fell out of the oil market in the 80s. We know all about that. Small world - huh? Then we saw a couple of Texas riders headed toward their bikes with t-shirt bags. We think they may have been on rental rides as they didn't have luggage, or jackets and they didn't look like they had been on the road that long. Who knows?

We were sure sorry to turn The Ride toward home... but tomorrow promises to be another great day.