Once again, a day beyond description. Really.
It’s tough to keep telling you all how each day is more beautiful or better than the previous, but it really feels that way. It’s not all the time, there are plenty of long boring stretches of road, but days like today.. Wow!
We started the day on the hunt for something called the million dollar highway. A deadly stretch of road with spectacular views. That part was true. The part where we read that the deadly part of the road was on the Outside if you are going north was total bullshit. Sheer cliffs were literally inches off the pavement. It was pretty hairy at times too, especially when making a pass..or at least attempting to. The elevation was +10000 feet and the bikes were struggling. We were over 10000 feet at least 3 times today and surprisingly the weather was awesome! This was a beautiful and technical start to the day.
Later we saw how baby tar snakes get made..that’s gotta be a rare sight. Kinda like seeing a baby whale shark. You ever seen one?
The day was full of beauty, so much so that my brain’s memory card is full and I mentally deleted the last hour or 3 of the afternoon. Wow Colorado is amazing.

Today was amazing! The roads were great, the weather was great, and the scenery was fantastic. You’d have to be here to really appreciate how good today was.. my descriptions can’t come close.

Today was compromised of a little bit of highway, a few towns time forgot, and two great sections of road. Jammed in there were a shit load of harleys. It being a holiday weekend it seems like every harley in new Mexico was within a 100 miles of us.
The day started cool but soon enough warmed up and then got cold again as we neared 9000 feet. Then as we got close to Taos the temperature jumped up to blast furnace level. Luckily for us Trip grabbed some febreze yesterday. It’s already half gone.
Today was the first time in days we have actually seen water in a river bed..I think they call those rivers but can’t be sure.
The turns at the end of the day were badass. We dove into green valleys and climbed beautiful rocky cliffs. The geography really takes your breath away. One of the most amazing moments came when after gaining an impressive amount of elevation, the road reached it’s highest point and in front of us was a giant valley with a huge scar shaped gash cut into it. It was one of those holy shit moments.
Today was a good day and we’re looking forward to more.

Like we talked about yesterday, today was all about getting into a good position for tomorrow. Well, mission accomplished and even though today wasn’t supposed to be anything special it turned out pretty amazing.
We began today riding on a giant pancake. There were no hills, no nothin. We saw ‘farmland’ on either side of the road but couldn’t figure out what was being farmed. Dirt maybe? As we rode we noticed the road was covered in tar stripes. You’ve seen them, they’re long thin strips of tar they’ve put down to cover cracks. These went on for miles and miles. I was informed the lines are called tar snakes and apparently when it’s hot they’re deadly. Not poisonous, but slick and bad for bikes. It wasn’t too hot and the roads were straight so each of us played dodge the tar snakes, hit the tar snakes, or ride next to the snakeys.
Later in the day we definitely didn’t eat at a cool 1950s diner. It was also not that cool silver airstream type metal on the outsider and the food wasn’t any good either.
After lunch, I mean getting gas we started to ride into foothills and the sky was full of clouds and big as can be. That’s when we started seeing trains, fucktons of trains. We saw more trains in 2 hours than I’ve seen in some years. These two were like pigs in shit they were so excited. It was funny. They tried to get a train to honk at them, but no luck.
We rolled into Moriarty with the promise of Arby’s and goodtimes.

We formed up like Voltron in the middle of the desert. We were going to meet up at a small cafe that was even deeper into the middle of no where but someone got his time zones confused. We’re not really like Voltron I guess, more line Venture-tron. He’s got an ice cream cone instead of an arm.
We pushed north, sticking to the highway to get to the the ‘good’ roads. There are some really nice ones in northern New Mexico, but around here it’s flat and hot. We need mountains, cool air, and turny roads.
Tomorrow will likely be the same as today but will be worth it.

So it looks like I’ve once again slept in a bed someone was murdered in. And, I’m glad I saw that in the morning. Again