We had heavy frost on our tents in the morning and it took awhile to warm up. We climbed to Willow Creek Pass 9621’ for the first half of the ride; and fought strong cross winds in the so-called North Park area of Colorado for the second half of the ride. We must have looked pretty ragged coming into town. A guy has stopped his car along the side of the road and it’s apparent he wants to talk to me. His name is John and he’s from Illinois! He says he just gave $5.00 to the two cyclists in front of us thinking they were Steve and me. A woman had passed him and almost run two cyclists over, he thought it was the guys he gave the money to but now he knows it was us. He wants to buy us something to drink as well. When we get to the store it turns out Mike and Richard are the two other cyclists!
How’d you like to have a snow capped mountain at the end of your Main Street?
We camped in a city park tonight with Mike and Richard. There was also a guy from Canada camping in the park, heading to Pueblo. Walden has an indoor pool nearby that offers $5.00 showers that we gladly paid.
Mike, Richard, Steve, and I ate at a BBQ place called All Smoked Up. Does this sum up Colorado these days, I don’t know. I can say we inhaled some delicious BBQ that Richard said was the best he’d ever had. This is high praise for a guy from Texas! I’ll stop now!
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