{"id":13070,"date":"2025-12-15T12:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=13070"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:55:56","slug":"this-is-not-where-i-was-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/this-is-not-where-i-was-going\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not Where I Was Going"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blue sky, sunny day–a great day for a December ride.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Have you ever started out heading to a particular place and found yourself somewhere else, asking, “How the heck did I get here?”<\/p>\n

That was me on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sunday was sunny and warm and there was no way I was not going out on the V-Strom. A lot of other people had the same idea. I saw you out there.<\/p>\n

I was very uncertain which way to go other than I clearly was not heading into the hills. That’s over for this season.<\/p>\n

So I concocted a route, a pretty standard route. I would go out Parker Road to Parker and the go west on Main Street. At Motsenbacher Road I would go south and follow it to Crowfoot Valley Road, to Castle Rock, and then get on US 85 (Santa Fe) going north until I reached Sedalia. Then some route home. Simple.<\/p>\n

Except one thing. As many times as I’ve been on the Crowfoot Valley Road I still have trouble finding it on the Parker end. It’s easy on the Castle Rock end but trickier up in Parker. But I figured now I had finally got it clear in my head.<\/p>\n

I did what I planned. I got to Parker, turned onto Main Street, and then turned south on Motsenbacher. Nothing to it.<\/p>\n

But then Motsenbacher ran out at a T intersection at Todd Drive, a street I was not familiar with. I took the turn to the west and soon ended up on Jordan Road. Fine. I turned south again on Jordan Road.<\/p>\n

And then Jordan ended at a T with Hess Road. I turned west again and found myself a bit later at Hess Road and I-25. What?<\/p>\n

It’s only now, looking at the map, that I see where I went wrong. I knew I wanted Motsenbacher but that road is one of those that stops and then picks up again later. I needed to pick it up further south than Main Street. If I had it would have simply flowed into and become Crowfoot Valley Road. Or I could have gone east on Hess and gotten back to Motsenbacher that way.<\/p>\n

Anyway, no matter. Once I got to I-25 I crossed it and was on Castle Pines Parkway, which I followed to Daniels Park, then I turned north to home. It was a really nice ride.<\/p>\n

There’s a quote I’ve seen, I believe it’s from The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, that says “All who wander are not lost.” Nope. But sometimes they’re sure as heck turned around.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

Riding a motorcycle is an art; every twist and turn is a brushstroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever started out heading to a particular place and found yourself somewhere else, asking, “How the heck did I get here?” That was me on Sunday. Sunday was sunny and warm and there was no way I was not going out on the V-Strom. A lot of other people had the same idea. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,517,518],"tags":[947,1358],"class_list":["post-13070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-motorcycle-rides","category-suzuki-motorcycles","category-v-strom","tag-daniels-park","tag-motorcycle-riding-in-december"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13078,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions\/13078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}