Day 56, Fowler to Pueblo, Colorado.

Outside the convention center in Pueblo, Colorado. A very nice town.

At first i thought this was a real guy, but laughed when i noticed it was just a piece of art.

How about this bike. It hung over the Adventure Cycle message Board.

Here I am, i thought you probably wanted to see me in the picture once in a while.

Of course Lisa needs to be in there too. She looks a little different from the front, doesn't she?

I don't know what happened, but I bet somebody got fired for this one.

Sorry, upside down. I found this while taking a break a ways off the side of the road.

These are the first hills we started seeing.

More flower pictures, we are seeing more of them now.

This came from a cactus plant, it looked better in person.

Here are two Texas long horns near Fowler. Beautiful animals.

A close up of the metal art.

Prairie dogs, we seen about a hundred of them.

This one was about a hundred yards away. Kind of looks like a target.

This train came pulling up, and i got a shot of it from my bike.


Day 56, Fowler, to Pueblo, Colorado. “We Can See The Mountains”, 41.05 miles.

Last nights thunder storm, and the report of hail just ahead toward Pueblo reminded us how quickly things can go from good to bad. We are prepared though. We have made it a point to know how the weather is ahead of us when ever possible, and from east bounders that we run into along the way. We were warned that it is common for late afternoon thunder showers in the area, and to expect severe conditions at times.
We left The Blue Sky Motel, and headed north to the junction where highway 95 would eventually take us to Pueblo. The air was crisp, and we were still blessed with a tail wind. I was on the look out for any kind of wild game that was within sight. The first animal that caught my attention, wasn’t a wild one at all. It was a pair of Texas long horns. I just had to stop and check them out.. Beautiful animals those things.
Later on into the ride, Lisa pointed out a large rabbit. Unfortunately, I did not see the darn thing. Up until now, we only saw little ones, I think maybe the one she saw was a jack rabbit. We also saw hundreds, well, at least fifty prairie dogs. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them before. To me, gophers, prairie dogs, ground hogs, they’re all the same.
Because of the tail wind, and the fairly flat terrain, we averaged about 14 miles an hour throughout our ride. We passed through the town of Boone where descendants of Daniel Boone took up residence and eventually became the mayor and so forth, thus having the town named after him. We wanted to eat lunch there, but couldn’t find anything open. We ended going to the park and ate energy bars and looked around the area to see if there was anything worth seeing. Lisa found a tent peg lost by someone. I kept it because I was missing one. I found a shell necklace, but didn’t want it, so Lisa kept it.
We left Boone, and made a good pace headed toward Pueblo. As we got closer, we could barely make out the foot hills of the Rocky Mountains. The excitement grew, cause we knew that soon, we would be entering some of the most beautiful country side in the country. A short time later, Lisa pointed out mountains with snow on them. This was even better, because those were the real mountains…………………………. Once we entered the pueblo city limits, we negotiated our way though this fairly large town of about 150,000 people. It took quite a while to get through the town to where we would be staying. We stopped at a Carl’s Jr. for lunch. The first time I’ve eaten there, and let me tell you, the burgers are great……………………………. After asking a local for some directions, we were able to maneuver our way to the Motel 6 where we are spending the night. It was a good day today, we got into Pueblo early, before 11:30AM. So plenty of time to unwind and enjoy a little free time. Aloha, good night, Ted.