Well, we rode up to Durango with a few stops prior to arrival and we ended the ride at Durango Harley-Davidson. I bought some poker chips and a new shirt. They have a nice store and Debby spent time talking with (I assume) the owner or his wife. I rode sweep the entire way and it was frustrating at times.

A group of us went out to dinner and drinks happened after the dinner. Thankfully we did take a cab both ways and I slept very well that night. Sleeping well did not stop me from tiring early and I had a 3 hour nap in the afternoon, after our ride to Ouray.  While it was nice being in Ouray, the trip there was filled with traffic and 2 sections where the road was missing in action. Well, half the road anyway and they controlled things with stop lights and one way traffic alternating in the areas being repaired. Lucky it was a weekend or the road would be shut down completely.

Nina and I will leave in the morning for our trip back, solo. All the others made the trip back today. We decided to enjoy ourselves and stay an extra night. We expect nothing but the most beautiful day tomorrow, as the weatherliars have predicted.

The pictures were taken by my Go Pro camera and while they’re nice, they lack any people in them. Beautiful scenery and challenging roads.

Finished the class and did fairly well. I was told that I would learn a lot and I did learn some stuff, but not as much as I thought I would. The riding was harder than I thought because of the tiny bikes we had to ride. I managed to ride, but my ankles and calves suffered. I even got 2 certificates, one say I completed the course and the other stating that I was “Most Likely to Accelerate” in the class. We also had cake and ice cream after the class.

One the range today. We meet in 1.5 hours at the National Guard range for riding the little bikes.

Well, it’s raining so I guess I won’t be riding my bike in for my new rider’s course. It’s no big deal since it’s just classroom today and quite honestly, I never have to ride in since the driving portion is done on their bikes. The dealership has some 60 bikes to draw from for their training classes. They have Harleys, Hondas, Yamahas and basically all popular brands to choose from. I’m guessing that it all depends which dealership signed them up for the course.

11 YR OLD SHOOTS ILLEGALS thanks FOX NEWS for reporting it.

BUTTE , MONTANA Shotgun preteen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders…Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11-year-old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home. It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay-shooting champion since she was nine.Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father’s room and grabbed his 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun. Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old’s knee-crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the …street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive. It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45-caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David 0’Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest.Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news……..? An 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself……against two murderous, illegal immigrants…….and she wins. She is still alive. Now THAT is Gun Control!

https://youtu.be/2dvCr-BeEGk

OK, there was no drag strip today and we weren’t on US 30 and the only people that would get this comment would be my Chicago area readers. Well, not all of them, just the gear heads and those that have retained some semblance of memory of Chicago radio,

We did do the breakfast run Sunday and while the turnout wasn’t as promised, we did have 13 show for breakfast and only 1 bike made the ride afterwards and she had no interest in visiting the monument. It turns out that Jane used to live in Pecos and didn’t need to see the monument.

Jane is a heck of a rider. We did the ride to Pecos at an average of 20 over and she was right there the entire time. I slowly started increasing my speed when I noticed her riding my ass from the start. Communications were difficult, but texting turned out to be the answer. Jane is deaf.

1. Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.

2. Betty White is older than sliced bread.

3. From the time it was discovered to the time it was stripped of its status as a planet, Pluto hadn’t made a full trip around the Sun.

4. The lighter was invented before the match.

5. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.

6. France last used a guillotine to execute someone after Star Wars premiered.

7. Harvard University was founded before Calculus existed.

8. If you have 23 people in a room, there is a 50% chancethat 2 of them have the same birthday.

9. It’s never said that Humpty Dumpty was an egg in the nursery rhyme.

10. The water in Lake Superior could cover all of North and South America in a foot of water.

11. North Korea and Finland both border the same country; Russia.

12. When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.

13. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

14. National animal of Scotland is a Unicorn.

15. The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. (This is the one that caused this entire posting just so I can make fun of the Cubs and direct it to Archie and Cathie.)

16. The lighter the roast of coffee, the more caffeine it has.

17. A speck of dust is halfway in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.

18. If the timeline of earth was compressed into one year, humans wouldn’t show up until December 31 at 11:58 p.m.

19. If you were able to dig a hole to the center of the earth, and drop something down it, it would take 42 minutes for the object to get there.

20. We went to the moon before we thought to put wheels on suitcases.

21. A human could swim through the arteries of a blue whale.

22. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, the combined thickness would reach the moon.

23. On both Saturn and Jupiter, it rains diamonds.

24. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.

25. You can line up all 8 planets in our solar system directly next to each other and it would fit in the space between Earth and the Moon.

26. The youngest known mother was 5 years old.

27. The Earth is smoother than a billiard ball, if both were of the same size.

28. Nintendo was founded in 1889.

29. If you take all the molecules in a teaspoon of water and lined them up end to end in a single file line, they would stretch ~30 billion miles.

30. In Australia, there was a war called the emu war. The emus won.