525 miles for the day. Tore out of Van Buren before the rain started. Ate lunch a little west of Memphis, TN. The nightmares of getting through Memphis, TN and Birmingham, AL went fine, even with crazy drivers all around. Needless to say, no pics for today.
Final leg home tomorrow is about 420 miles, so shouldn’t be much of a problem.
460 or so miles for the day. Had a long lunch in Oklahoma City, so we lost a little more ride time than usual due to a long lunch. No pics for today. I’m posting some shots I took outside the tent at Molas Lake Camp after we woke up in 30 degr. yesterday.
Taken towards the east the night before
Left Molas Lake around 9:00 AM. Temp dropped to 30 degr overnight, so Lois’s tootsies got cold. Continued down 550 (Million Dollar Hwy) to Durango, where we ate breakfast.
After breakfast we stayed on 550 until hitting I40 in Albuquerque, NM. Then a straight shot to Vega, TX. In for the night at Days Inn. 496 miles for the day.
Left Silverton in the morning with about 40 degr. on the thermometer. The ride out to the park is just 9-10 miles, where we set up camp. This is truly a beautiful camping park.
Took quite a few shots, but no uploads for now. Have to do it later.
We decided to rent a Jeep for the excursion today. A good thing too, because where we went today were not at all suitable for our bikes. The “roads” looked like rock quarries, or packed up with snow. Just too rugged for two wheels.
But what a nice day it was. We started with a good breakfast, picked up the jeep, loaded it up with our camera gear and clothes, then started up from Silverton towards Animas Fork, Cinnnamon Pass and Engineer Pass.
The road started as pavement, changed to dirt, then changed to a rock pile. The jeep handled it all fine.
Towards Animas Forks
Animas Forks
Old mining town Animas Forks
Towards Cinnamon Pass
Headed to Engineer Pass
Then it was time for Clear Lake. We made our way down from Engineer all the way back to Silverton, then out of town on the other side, a bit north on 550, and we started to steep climb.
View on the climb up
Clear Lake
Headed back down
Last stop was to scope out our camp ground for tomorrow. Molas Lake Campground it is, and the scenery is,,,well, nice. We’re headed there tomorrow.
Molas Lake. We decided on a campsite across the lake from where I shot this.
