Before leaving Dodge City, Ks. (which smelled like a bad fart, because of the meat and fertilizer plants)we decided that we must go to the Wyatt Earp Museum. It was a teacher hall of fame museum as well. This nice lady in her middle 80's, Euela, gave us a tour and decided she wanted to adopt me. lol. Well we headed out north on 283 so we could get back to an interstate thru western Kansas. 300 more miles thru Kansas did not happen fast like the first 2 days, I was wearing out. I must have had three epiphanies driving that long stretch of interstate with nothing but poisoned farmlands.I did meet this wonderful lady in her mid fifties named Vicky, from South Carolina. She pulled up behind me in her Suburban and asked if I was driving all the way from Tenn. by myself on the bike. Anyway, we both have been traveling for 3 days straight and it was nice to talk to someone. We hung out at a picnic table at this gas station in Mid America, KS. for about 20 minutes and she told me all about herself and how she was traveling to Steamboat, Co. to stay with a friend that had lost her husband 8 months ago. She was quite a free spirit and nothing was gonna get her down long.
When we drove into Denver and I saw the Rockies I must say it made me a little emotional. I made it. 1500 miles. 3 days. I drove thru 2 dust devils (scary). Sometimes when things are hard it makes what's good, magical. We missed 2 tornadoes by an hour so there was some heavy winds, but it was as if God moved the clouds out of our path and gave us a little sunshine thru the clouds. It was dark all around us. We went on to Boulder to meet up with Amber's friend Paul at Boulder Brewing Co. where he brews beer and him and his friends made me feel like a rockstar. They were buying us beer and I told them I couldn't drink to much because I had to ride to where we would be staying for the night. So the boys suggested that I park it in the warehouse where they bottled the beer behind the restaurant and Dottie the Dyna crashed at the brewery for the night and I continued to get a little bit intoxicated. We stayed at Paul's friends house, John, at the top of a mountain with a hot tub. They both were the perfect hosts. Tonight we are staying and healing with Paul and his girlfriend Kristy, then off tomorrow for Moab, UT. How lucky could we be, and so very grateful.
