Colorado

Today's ride was both great and terrible! It started out with a looooooong gradual climb. The guy who took our picture a couple of days ago said that it was a 5 mile climb, but then it was a fun downhill. Well, we rode a trail to a dirt road. The dirt road was interesting because it had old railroad tunnels. It even had one that was collapsed. That was all interesting, but that was when things turned terrible. We had to climb Buckhorn and that was a horrible trail. I ended up walking all of it. It was too steep and too many rocks/roots! 😵‍💫

We got to the top and Gary couldn't figure out which way to go, so we had a few false starts. That wasn't bad, but when we finally found the correct trail (Capitan Jack's), that downhill was too tricky for me to ride! I was so mad! 😡 I had ridden 10 miles UPHILL for this trail and I couldn't ride it!! And when I did try to ride it I fell! 🩹 But I did see a fox on the trail, so that was cool!

We made it down, eventually, but we still had to ride the Chutes Trail and I was out of water (Gary too). But we tried it and that was really fun!! Back at the car, we ate sandwiches and drank some carbonated water that I had brought to be a treat for lunch. We were both wiped out! It ended up being harder than anyone said and twice as long!

We headed off to Pike's Peak Brewing to drown our sorrows. The beer was meh. There was a different brewery across the street so we jumped over there. Their beer was much better!! We stopped to get beer to bring home, then went to the Garden of the Gods. There was a mountain that we had seen a bunch of people on and wanted to go up. But the last time we were here we ran out of time. Today made up for that. We got to the top and just sat. Then we went in search of dinner.

We were told there was the "best buffalo burgers" at the Trading Post. We went there for dinner. After dinner we went looking for Balanced Rock. We had been there on our honeymoon and Gary wanted to go again. We found it! There were so many people!!

Then we went to Batch Slapped for the last of the Colorado beer. Then it was back to the hotel to try to get everything packed up! 🧳Читать далее