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<\/a>\nThis is view behind the other side of the hotel. The eatery seen in the lower right was sort of a disapointment. You would think a place called Buffalo’s that specialized in ribs would be a no brainer as to what to order. The ribs came with a sharp <\/em>knife – and it needed to be. Ain’t no knive be needin to get near good ribs. Matt – you can relate. Perhaps the next trip will be the culinary tour.<\/p>\n
After a gas fill up and acquiring a tube of zinc oxide for the tender parts we were on our way.<\/p>\n As we left Buena Vista on 24 west to 91 north it was 49 degrees and SUNNY. Standing in the mornin sun with a cup o joe in yore hand squintin at the mountains 49 is a piece o cake. Hurtling through space at 60+ mph 49 requires respect. Time for long pants, leather jacket and gloves. As we were climbing to our first pass we stopped and shot another panorama:<\/p>\n Since it is a motorcycle trip we need to have a few bike pics in here, gratuitous though they may be:<\/p>\n Dig the cool new shades<\/p>\n The views were awe inspiring. Just when you think it can’t get any better it does. We couldn’t stop at every one of them to get pics. I took a few as we were traveling:<\/p>\n The highlight of the day was the road going over Ute Pass. It started out paved then went to packed clay for a while back to paved. We were alone most of the 25 miles and traveling 40 miles and hour. It was nice to slow down and be able to look a little more. We took a video<\/a> from one of the switchbacks down into the valley we had just climbed up from. Im not sure if we can get it on this page. The tech staff will have to work on it.<\/p>\n We crossed the continental divide 4 times today and got a picture of one of the times:<\/p>\n So what do you do when your standing at the place were all the water on your left goes to the Specific Ocean and the water on your right goes to the Atlantic – you make sure you position yourself strategically for the required pee stop. Its the guy thing to do. And take another bike shot: After roaming around colorado for the day we ended up in<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n