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Home -- the long way
... I think we'll hear his name a lot in coming years.
I was waiting outside the Omega-Pharma QuickStep RV (yes....a rented RV) to try to get an autograph from last year's winner, Levi Leipheimer, but we had to leave before he came out.
Breckenridge had the most comprehensive information about the various closures and events of any city we'd visited, which was very much appreciated. As such, we knew that we'd have ...
King of the Mountain
... the guys coming up the road, we descended, and took our places at the barriers. The crowds swarmed around the cyclists as they came up the dirt roads, and even the barriers didn't keep everyone out of the way at the KOM line.
After the bikes & entourage had passed, and most of the crowds had dissipated, we went back down the east side of things. It felt like forever before we got cell coverage again, so we could ...
Cottonwood Pass
... you can fill a water container at the grocery store is a useful thing).
We paused at the turnoff from Almont to ask the state patrolman when they were closing the road -- his answer of "3:00" matched up with the dozen or so printed things we'd seen that said the road closed at 3. But the question of "exactly where?" hadn't quite been cleared up.
After surviving the hideous mess that was the 8 miles of road construction outside of Almont (HOW did they make ...
Dag 20: Como tot Salida
... zijn droomdame gezien heeft. Alleen durfde hij zich wel niet bewegen omdat hij bang was van de mama en haar tante (Cowboywoman)!
Toen we terug vertokken werden we tegengehouden door de highway patrol ...
Colorado Rockies
... are stopping to see an ole friend I surveyed with in both Colorado and Wyoming. Max and have know each other since I was 16. He and his wife climbed Pikes peak with me when I was 19. He lives in a mountain town called Pine, Colorado out side Denver. Also tomorrow stopping to see Susies aunt Edna who lives in Arvada, than spending the next 2 nights with my sister Jacklyn who's having a barbecue tomorrow night, having her 2 kids over so we can see my niece Brandy and nephew ...