AS I RIDE

We're in Parachute Colorado. We planned on Denver which was bold to begin with, but the cloud we watched for an hour in Utah hit us outside Grand Junction and opened up with rain and lightning, so here we are watching Fear and Marky Mark is about to go ape.

Utah was a great ride with the most unique and varied terrain with a huge sky splashed with clouds. Traffic picked up a tad where US50 and I-70 but all was good. Go figure, we get out of the desert like conditions we see a black billowing cloud. Once we cross into Colorado of course it rains. We waited a bit of it out got on the road and it wasn't going to cease so we called it a day.

We ate some Chinese with Tsingtoa and wished you were with us Edwin.

Like with the previous images not doing the land justice, these are even more so. The land is vast and absolutely huge and opened up.

Route for the day

The land had something new to look at at every turn and direction

The clouds were great

and the sandstone fortresses were something else 

Rock detail

Running around the land

It's amazing the terrain they had to build through.

Being on the interstate we dealt with these guys a good bit.

Looking down into canyon

This looks flat when it's the exact opposite.

We're cresting a hill and the land just opens up before us with wonderful desert colors.

These absolutely do no justice.

Another section knocked through.

These rocks are precariously placed as a sticky bun

Another cool slab

Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe

The day started with a bit of color

More landscape. I'm not apologizing for too many pictures.

More wonderful clouds.

More rock

And the cloud we watched for about an hour continously building up. We got quite the lightning storm leaving Grand Junction. News said lightning touched down over 800 times this evening.

Tomorrow is the wonderful world of the Colorado Rockies and we're supposed to have a clear morning and afternoon.

Till then... h