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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Cheri May-30-12
9:16 PM | 
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Sharp's Travels
This morning when we got up it was only 57 degrees.
It was suppose to reach to the high 70’s today, so we decided to head for Pikes Peak. It is only 35 miles from our park.
We had taken the Cog Railway up Pikes Peak some 20 years ago, so this time Gay wanted to drive the motorcycle to the top. We left our RV Park dressed in our leather jackets. It was cold—I even had a sweatshirt on underneath my jacket and I put the hood up!
The Pikes Peak Highway is a 19-mile toll road (it cost us $22) that starts in Cascade, just 15 minutes west of Colorado Springs. As we begin our climb there are Aspen trees on either side of the road—soon it turns to all pines. You take a deep breath and you can smell the pine. I took pictures from the back of the bike all the way up. The views were breathtaking, even the snow along beside the road. About 5 miles from the top the temperature began to change drastically. My fingers were freezing. When we hit the top we were 14,115 ft above sea level and it was only 33 degrees. It is 59 miles from our RV to the tippy top of Pikes Peak.
I had a bad headache and was so light headed when I got off the bike. Gay said he was a little light headed also. We went inside and ordered coffee and donuts to try and warm up a bit. I did not begin to feel better until we were back down off the peak. I took lots more pictures on our decent. We both agreed coming down was prettier than going up.
We had planned on taking in Manitou Cliff Dwellings next, but we talked to one of the Peak’s employees and he said that these dwellings were brought in as a tourist attraction and were not original to the area. That turned us off immediately. We did, however, go to downtown Manitou and checked out all the little shops and about 4:30pm ended up at BJ’s Bistro for dinner.
We were both tired from our day’s adventure so decided to call it a night. We put on 105 miles today and were back to the RV Park by 6pm.
What a wonderful day.
Gay has uploaded pictures of our Pikes Peak ride. Click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Pikes Peak
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| My tour guide putting together our agenda for the next two weeks |
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