Friday, September 28, back in Walsenburg.
We picked Rod up at the airport this afternoon - happy to find that his bike in the soft case slid easily into the back of The Little Darkness - then drove south, back to Walsenburg.
The sky on the way down was absolutely spectacular:
Late evening sky, approaching Walsenburg.
We found our hotel, checked in, got a dinner recommendation, then Jody hopped on the bike and rode back to the Visitors' Center/Museum where Joe had picked us up on Monday. We weren't yet sure where Saturday's route started, and Jody wanted to be sure he could ride from the hotel. We knew we'd ridden into Walsenburg on Colorado State Highway 160 and that we were riding out on Colorado State Highway 10, but we weren't certain where CSH 10 started.
Jody, in cycling shorts and a regular shirt, wearing his Five Fingers,
pedaling away from the hotel so fast I missed him.
Dinner at The Plaza got mixed reviews. The annual Spanish Peaks Celtic Music Festival and Retreat is in town tonight. The restaurant was packed with both concert goers and musicians, but emptied out soon after we arrived, as folks went off to tonight's concert. Through double glass doors in the restaurant lobby and bar, we could see a dozen or so Celtic and other harps, still in their cases, awaiting tomorrow's workshops.
As we left the restaurant, we checked with the maitre'd to see where Colorado State Highway 10 left town. One block north, half a block over. Turns out that the start to tomorrow's route is right where Joe picked us up on Monday. Well done, Joe!
Back on the bikes tomorrow. Not quite Waltzing Matilda, but close.
"Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's most widely known bush ballad, a country folk song referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia". The title is Australian slang for travelling by foot with one's goods (waltzing, derived from the German auf der Walz) in a "Matilda" (bag) slung over one's back.
~from Wikipedia
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