The group

Frank's wife Kim wanted me to post a group picture so folks could see who we all are on this trip so here it is. From left to right we have Nate, Kevin, Greg, Steve, Jim, Bruce and Frank. I hope this helps you out Kim.

OK the joke worked. Here is another picture of us (Nate, Steve, Greg, Kevin, Jim, Bruce, Frank) and one on the porch of a KOA Kabin in Buena Vista. I'm taking the picture so I'm not in it.

Also a selection of scenic shots taken today as we traveled from Montrose to Buena Vista via Aspen.

Nate, Steve, Greg, Kevin, Jim, Bruce, Frank

waiting at a construction zone

Doing what we do best

Where's the banjo player?

Sunday

We had a nice ride today through a neat canyon and over the Grand Mesa ending up at. KOA in Montrose. We got rained on a little and it was chilly for a few miles on top of the Grand Mesa road but otherwise a decent day to ride.

Saturday meet up

Steve and I arrived at the KOA in Ouray, CO and met up with Kevin, Nate and Greg, an hour later Frank and Bruce showed up. We will all be together for the better part of next week as we tour around Colorado. After 2 weeks and over 3,500 miles I experienced the first rain only 6 miles from this campground. I imagine we'll get more rain this week but at least all this week we have KOA cabins reserved for each night, no more tents.

Thursday in Idaho

We crossed into Idaho today and spent the most part of the day in Twin Falls looking at local attractions. First a bridge 482 ft. above the Snake river where guys were BASE jumping off of it. If you look close you can see the guy in the second picture. The first water fall we saw was the Shoshone Falls. Then the water falls that the city was named for although the local power company blocked off one of the falls for their hydroelectric generators. The last falls was just there as we rode out of the canyon.

Steve's pictures

Here are pictures Steve took. The first 5 are of an island he saw off the coast and after a closer look he saw Sea Lions on it. The rest are random shots.

More pictures

Here are more pictures from the past few days. The first ones were taken at the Golden Gate bridge. The rest were on the road through the forests and at some of our campsites along the way. The last one is Alcatraz island.

Catching up

We haven't had WiFi or cell service at the campgrounds we've stayed in the last 3 nights so I'll try and catch up on our trip so far. We left Salem Sunday morning and headed for the coast. Once we hit 101 we turned south and rode it to almost the California border that day. The next day we continued on and picked up California highway 1 and took it down near Jenner. Tuesday we continued on and rode over the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, took pictures and turned around rode back across and got out of town. Last night we ended up in north east California near Downieville on highway 49.

The pictures below are of the coastline, Redwood Forest, Golden Gate bridge and anything else I thought was interesting.