{"id":11547,"date":"2023-05-04T22:47:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T04:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=11547"},"modified":"2023-05-04T22:47:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T04:47:49","slug":"a-good-ride-you-might-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/a-good-ride-you-might-consider\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Ride You Might Consider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11549\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CattleHerdChama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11549\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CattleHerdChama.jpg\" vspace=\"7\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"373\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CattleHerdChama.jpg 497w, https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CattleHerdChama-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>Preparing to barge through a herd of cattle outside of Chama, New Mexico.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>If anyone wants to accuse me of promoting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/RockyMountainMotorcycleRidersClub\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Riders Club<\/a> that&#8217;s OK, because I am. I&#8217;ve really enjoyed all the rides I&#8217;ve been on with this group. With the <a href=\"http:\/\/ofmc.motorcyclecolorado.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OFMC<\/a> we do one ride a year and then only occasional day rides. The RMMRC does a lot of day rides and several big rides every year. And we&#8217;d love to have more people joining in.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s another good ride that was just posted for the RMMRC. This is listed on the site as New Mexico Tour 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving on Saturday, June 3, and returning on Thursday, June 8, the first night&#8217;s stop will be Montrose. Day two will be down through Colorado into New Mexico, to Gallup. We&#8217;ll be staying in Gallup at the historic old El Rancho hotel. This is a very cool place. It&#8217;s where all the Hollywood people used to stay when they were filming movies up in Monument Valley and all the rooms are named for the various stars who stayed there.<\/p>\n<p>Day three will end up in Silver City, another very nice place. I&#8217;m not sure what hotel we&#8217;ll be at but there are a couple really nice old, refurbished places in town. I have no idea what route Bob plans on taking but getting to Silver City pretty much requires that you ride some of the nicest roads in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The next day will be heading back north, to Grants. There is no obvious route I see looking at the map so this is a question mark. It could be one of the less interesting rides of the trip. Or not. I just don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Then on to Red River. This is another nice town. Nice enough that they hold a motorcycle rally there every year. What more do you need to know?<\/p>\n<p>On the last day it&#8217;s just a run toward home. There are several possible routes so hard to say.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether, by a very rough estimate, it looks like about 1,500 miles in six days. That&#8217;s really low mileage for an RMMRC trip but very much of the sort I prefer. I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m going on this one. What about you?<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>The motorcycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone wants to accuse me of promoting the Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Riders Club that&#8217;s OK, because I am. I&#8217;ve really enjoyed all the rides I&#8217;ve been on with this group. With the OFMC we do one ride a year and then only occasional day rides. The RMMRC does a lot of day rides and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,818],"tags":[1201,906],"class_list":["post-11547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-touring","category-rocky-mountain-motorcycle-riders-club","tag-motorcycling-new-mexico","tag-rmmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11550,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions\/11550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}