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\nHey, where you guys goin’?<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

We’re in the time of year now when you need to jump at your chances to ride because you never know when the weather will turn on you. I told the guys Thursday night that I was hoping to get in a ride on Sunday and they said, oh, it’s supposed to rain. I said yeah, but I’ll be playing it by ear and if I can get out I will.<\/p>\n

I did. And what a nice fall day. No rain. Not that we don’t need it. If we had a downpour now I’d be happy.<\/p>\n

For once I had a plan as to where I wanted to go. Heading south out of town there is an area west of I-25 and east of CO 105 that is hilly and very pretty. Several roads criss-cross those hills and while I’ve been on all of them at one time or another I still didn’t feel like I really knew the area. Let’s go criss-cross those hills.<\/p>\n

The weather looked unpredictable so I geared up. I pulled out the leather jacket, put on the electric vest, and wore my riding pants with a high-tech, extra-warm base layer on underneath. My rain suit was in the top bag. I plugged the vest in but didn’t turn it on, at least not yet.<\/p>\n

Across Belleview and then south on Santa Fe, which is US 85, and out of town, down to Sedalia, where I turned west to pick up CO 105. On the way down to Sedalia I noticed, perhaps for the first time, a frontage road of sorts that runs down on the west side of the highway most of the way down. Interesting, I thought. Maybe I should ride that some day and check it out. Get off this busy highway. And just then I saw a biker headed north on that road, which pretty much cemented it in my mind that this is something I will do.<\/p>\n

I got to Sedalia, made the turn, crossed the river and then made the turn south. I had Tomah Road in mind because I had a side trip off Tomah also in mind, but I hadn’t thought about Wolfensberger Road. I said I’m not totally familiar with all these roads.<\/p>\n

Wolfensberger climbs up and over, coming down into Castle Rock on the other side. I knew this. Fine, I’ll get to Tomah from the east rather than the west.<\/p>\n

Coming down into Castle Rock I came to Plum Creek Parkway, which I knew I wanted to take because I didn’t want to actually go into Castle Rock and Plum Creek runs south skirting around the town.<\/p>\n

At this time I was in grope mode. That is to say, I had a good idea where I wanted to get to but was not entirely sure how to get there. I would just grope my way along.<\/p>\n

As I found myself approaching I-25 I presumed I would need to take the west frontage road down and meet up with Tomah Road along there somewhere. I turned onto the frontage road but very soon saw signs saying there was construction on this road and to get to Tomah I should get on I-25. I rode it all the way to where, sure enough, the road was completely blocked (you never know; it was Sunday, I may have been able to get through the construction zone.) So I turned around and got on I-25 headed south. I was pretty sure there was an exit up ahead for Tomah, and there was. Meanwhile, I poked along in the far right lane going only 80 while all the other traffic blasted past me on my left.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, there was the Tomah Road exit and I took it. I immediately took a hard right and was heading right back up where I had just come from, only this time I was on the frontage road. There was actually a traffic signal there at the Tomah Road intersection, although I couldn’t have gone further because of the construction blockage, and there was no oncoming traffic for the same reason. But I stopped for the red anyway. Took the left and now I was finally on Tomah Road.<\/p>\n

And this is getting long-winded so I’m going to break it into two and will complete the ride in my next post.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

100 reasons not to date a biker: 26. The sound of a bike starting up is your morning alarm clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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