Colorado – Aug./Sept. 1999
Late in August, Eore and I left San Diego to meet Moe and his
dog, Soli, in Buena Vista Colorado(approx. 1000 miles). I drove out highway 10
to thread my way up out of the desert basin through areas like Arizona’s
Peeples Valley, Sedona, and Jerome. It was three leisurely days of incredible
scenery along predominantly 2 lane roads suiting the old machines happiest
cruise of about 40 mph.
In Colorado the colors where changing making lower elevations
incredible displays of the full spectrum of reds, yellows, and greens. In the
high elevations we were often plowing virgin snow and on one particular day
faced near white out conditions. We remained 12 days in the mountains along
trails like pearl pass, California pass, Engineer pass, etc.– hoteling it just
two. Only one hike this trip - we climbed to Ice Lake for an over nighter
followed by an early morning summit. Definitely a highlight of the trip.
Mechanical problems – cracked heater core on the way home,
wiper switch ate itself (a sign of things to come – it’s now 8 months later
and the wiper motor is apart on my work bench), one fuse, and a tranny to T-case
internal seal failure….again.
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