We had negotiated a compromise to our departure time this morning, 0730, and so when I awoke at 0600 I spent the first hour blogging. It was an overcast day, but projected high was still in the mid 30's. Bill would like to take me to the Four Corners area; where AZ, NV, NM & CO all meet, as there are some Aztec ruins there as well. Accordingly we plot our route out of Tucson in a manner dodging the Interstate as much as possible. We end up on AZ77 Northboun...

We left Roswell at 0800, we don't have that far to go as we are still doing Tucson in 2 days instead of one. We headed out on the road in front of our mo'tel that we came in on, the highway usually runs down the street with mo'tels on either side so the premise was sound. We kept going and going with the 70 marker appearing from time to time to reassure us. The speed limit signs started increasing, again a positive sign you are leaving town, then we came to the ...

Bill and I had negotiated a slightly later departure time this morning as we are only going to drive 500ish km, and also we will be crossing into the Mountain time zone our day will end one hour earlier. We are about 1300 clicks from Tucson, wheich we could do in 2 hard days, or 3 easy days. We are on holidays so we are going to take it easy! We ended up doing about 585 kms today, the riding first thing in the morning was spectacular, spec-fugging-tacular actual...

Last night I met a couple from Hinton northbound on a Harley. We chatted casually as we waited in line to check in at the Mo'tel. They spoke glowingly of Hwy 550 and since I was on Hwy 50 already and it was going in the right direction I decided to take it. 550 cuts through the rugged San Juan mountains in eastern Colorado between Montrose and Durango, about 100 miles. This is maybe the toughest 100 miles I have ever ridden. It was incredibly twisty with a top p...