We left out of Houston at 9am on Friday morning, and rode 876 miles to Holdrege Nebraska where we stayed the first night.
Day 2 we rode another 470 miles to our campgrounds in Sturgis. We spent the next 5 days taking scoping out the sights in and around the Black Hills area.
We left out on Thursday afternoon and started our journey back to Texas, although, it would be 8 more days and 2300 miles later.
On the way back home we took a little journey through Colorado taking in all the beauty of the mountains and towns. We Stayed in Ft. Collins for the night, then rode over to Buena Vista the next day, where we found there were no rooms available so we rode on over to Salida and found a really quaint little motel there.
The next morning we rode back past Buena Vista and headed over Independence Pass down into Aspen, then over to Carbondale where we went South to the Black Canyon area and Blue Mesa Reservoir and on to Gunnison and a nice overnight stay at the Waterwheel Inn.
It is now Monday morning on the 10th of August. After breakfast we rode over Monarch Pass to Montrose, Ouray, over Red Mountain Pass (Million Dollar Highway) to Silverton and had lunch in Silverton. We then rode over Weminuche Pass to Durango and stayed there for the night. While in Durango I rode around and located the house I lived in back in the early 70's.
The next day we rode over through Pagosa Springs then over Wolf Creek Pass to South Fork and up the Silver Thread Highway (149) over 2 more mountain pass towards Gunnison and on into Canon City for the night.
We then awoke and headed out on a short day over to Trinidad via Highway 69 where we encountered a doe and 3 little yearlings crossing the road in front of us. We actually stopped and watched as the slowly crossed then scampered of into the trees. Along the way we also went down highway 12 Highway of Legends out of Walsenburg to Trinidad where we stayed the night and visited with some friends that live in the area.
It is now 8:30am (Houston Time) Thursday morning August the 13th and time to get back to Texas. The plan was to stop off in Abilene for the night, but after only a couple hundred miles we decided to tough it out and ride straight on to Houston. So after 15 and a half hours and 820 miles we arrived at the house a little after midnight.