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Colorado continued...











Colorado is a place I'd like to call home someday. My Stay was short but sweet. Couch surfed in colorado springs and checked out the garden of the gods at sunrise. Took 24 north out of CS and checked out pikes peak, highest I've ever been. 24 led me west through some of the most beautiful scenery I've seen so far. Folllowed by a jaunt south back to 50 where I aimed for Gunnison and eventually Crested Butte. CB is one of those places that you have to experience not hear about so I won't go much into it. I was hosted by a genuine gentleman who also travels and dabs in photography who treated me like family. All thanks to a crazy bearded cook who runs around these parts and is currently somewhere in Uruguay on his limping KLR. Spent two days recuperating and enjoying a town with less than 2,000 occupants. Met some of the quirky locals who seem like the type of people who just ran into the place and decided to leave everything behind and stay. Can't say that I blame them. Will never get over the unlocked doors and bicycles specially outside the bars. Rode 50 west and got to check out a bit of Black Canyon. Then shot through Montrose where I took a "short cut" through a dirt road that goes by 90 through the beautiful Uncompahgre National forest. Where I managed to get lost and had to spend the night. Though in hind site I'd love to get lost there again. With snow and rain approaching courtesy of Brutus I fled west to Moab, Utah where I'm currently stuck in the twilight zone...