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My half day Rocky Mountain motorcycle & fiber tour

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Mon, 2010-06-28 05:57 — purlyman

Yesterday was one of those amazing days with beautiful weather and clear skies so I headed west and up into the mountains with the motorcycle. It was Sunday so many places would be closed but I decided to do a "fiber" tour to stop by LYSs, alpaca farms, etc.

My route covered about 160 miles roundtrip and went through:

- Golden
- Golden Gate State Park
- Nederland (The Alpaca Store)
- Allenspark (Sunshine Mountain Lodge where we'll have MRMKR)
- Estes Park (Switzer-land Alpacas)
- Lyons (Paradise Valley Alpacas)
- Boulder (Shuttles, Spindles and Skeins LYS and Schacht Spindle Co.)
- then back down to Golden and Denver.

The attached files include some of the pics I took along the way. It was a wonderfully spent 5 hours I have to say!!

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Motorcycle & Fiber tour1.pdf1.23 MB
Motorcycle & Fiber tour2.pdf1.18 MB
Motorcycle & Fiber tour3.pdf1.38 MB
Motorcycle & Fiber tour4.pdf1.34 MB
Motorcycle & Fiber tour5.pdf1.2 MB

Comments

Wed, 2010-06-30 04:34 — Aaronknits
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Ditto on the jealous.

Ditto on the jealous. Beautiful pictures!

Tue, 2010-06-29 23:45 — rc_in_sd
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What a fantastic trip - and

What a fantastic trip - and all in one day. Thanks for the vicarious outing, Frank!

Mon, 2010-06-28 18:40 — Bradferd
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so, that is how you keep

so, that is how you keep from buying yarn... you just take your bike!

Mon, 2010-06-28 20:42 — purlyman
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Believe me - I can get quit

Believe me - I can get quit a bit on that bike and in that backpack!! :-)

Mon, 2010-06-28 18:17 — PaulJMC
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Yup - jealous!! ;)

Yup - jealous!!

;)

Mon, 2010-06-28 17:14 — WillyG
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Gosh! That's beautiful!

Gosh! That's beautiful! Jealous.

Mon, 2010-06-28 17:57 — purlyman
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yeah, it's pretty beautiful!

yeah, it's pretty beautiful! I could do this every weekend I could!

Fri, 2010-07-02 18:18 — WillyG
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I can't believe you fit that

I can't believe you fit that all into an afternoon!!! I would think this was a several-day excursion!

Fri, 2010-07-02 22:27 — purlyman
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Yep - left the house around

Yep - left the house around 9am and got back at about 2:30pm.