Let me go back a day or so. We left Montrose late in the morning after visiting black canyon. That's one phenominal place.
We started out for Ridgeway slowly as we could see a major storm heading smack for our destinaltion. RT50 was very busy with traffic, all with their headlights on (never a good sign, unless you are really into heavy rain and lightening; it's ok if you are, I just don't happen to be right at this particular time).
We had been in touch with Karina's Grandma Ruth and Poppy (Bob) and had arranged to meet them in Ridgeway (they live in Grand Junction). As we are riding on the rain and traffic and watching the lightening pound Ridgeway, we came upon their car pulled over and waiting for us! Took all of about ten seconds to determine that riding with them to Ridgeway was an excellent choice.
Ate lunch at the True Grit Cafe. Ridgeway was the film site for the 1969 John Wayne film classic, so we ate lunch across the street from the hanging scene (how great is that?!)
The storm had passed by the time we had got there, but it was the topic of the day for those who were there, several ground strikes right in the town center.
They delivered us to our campsite, about 5 miles out of town and headed back to Grand Junction. The campsite was in a super location (Dutch Charlie's), and we presented with the San Juan mountains all around us. The night was fine, no rain that I recall and a beautiful sky full of stars.
Up before sunrise for a walk about, the nature trail from the visitor center was great.
More later, Karina is up and we are off to breakfast.
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ReplyDeleteGlad you two are safe. I have heard that Rt.50 can be pretty wild , but very beautiful. It looks like the temps are starting to drop a little so hopefully it won't be tooooo hot in Utah or Neveda. Look forward to seeing yo next week. I'm thinking that Milford may be th best place. I've never been there but there's a first time for everything. A couple of friends from Buffalo will be joing me for the trek on the motorized bikes.
John Wayne! I remember you telling me that you loved John Wayne, and that just about every day you could find a John Wayne moving on TV somewhere... that is so hilarious to hear. Glad to hear things are going so well, keep on keepin on!
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