This was the final leg of this segment of the trip. I didn’t know what to expect when I got up this morning because for days the weather reports have indicated ugly weather, but it looked beautiful only a few clouds in the sky, and nice temp. This leg was short so I stopped at many of the historical interest points in route. The first was Fort Laramie which operated from 1849 until 1890 to protect the people traveling west on the Oregon Trail. The next stop was what is called the Register Cliff State historic site just above the banks of the North Platte River. This is where people traveling on the Oregon Trail carved their names and dates on this vertical wall of soft sandstone. Could have happened today, people through historic time never seem to change.
Traveling south on route 25 through Cheyenne, and Fort Collins to Denver was fast and easy. There were some very wild looking thunderhead clouds just to the west of the freeway around Longmont or Boulder that were dropping significant rain, it almost looked tornado like but no funnel. Anyway, got to Irv & Karen Crump’s house and Karen drove me up to the airport. Thanks so much for your help and letting me park the bike at your house until the next segment.
I will return to Denver to complete the final segment and get the bike back home June 25……stay tuned for the final episode.
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