4 Days - 6 States - 1,749 Miles

And it was all on a motorcycle!!!

T minus 2 days: Clean the bike. Must be nice and shiny for the big trip. We cleaned the bike on Wed. because it was the only time we had before we left on Fri. morning.

Day 1: Blanding, UT - Roswell, NM. 580 miles. I got off work @ 6am, we left @ 6:30am. (Who knew you could sleep on a motorcycle?) We were all bundled up, me in my snow pants and winter coat, Trent in his leather coat and new leather chaps that he got the day before. We stopped somewhere in NM for lunch, by then it was so HOT! We all peeled off some layers.

We went through Lincoln county, which is "Billy the Kid" country. There was a museum but we got there about 20 mins. after closing time. So we just walked around the little town and read the signs and looked through the windows of the buildings.

Trent, J.J. Bradford, John Imlay, Cole Holliday

If you've seen "Young Guns" or any other Billy the Kid movie, you'll recognize these names and places.

By the end of day 1 we were hot and tired and pretty sun burned. Trent was very sun burned. We stayed in Roswell, NM, alien capital. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_Incident

I'm sad I didn't get any pictures of the alien museum and all the alien shops.

Day 2: Roswell, NM - Guymon, OK. 378 miles. We went through Fort Sumner. We went to a big Billy the Kid museum. There was so much stuff to see and read. Fort Sumner is where Billy the Kid is buried.

The head stone is all caged up because......

From Fort Sumner we went through Texas and ended up in Oklahoma.

This was my view for 4 days.....

...this was my view if I leaned to the side.

Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are flat and windy. Not much to look at, except for cows and big green fields.

This is one of the many feed lots we passed. Right when we crossed the border into TX, there were a couple HUGE feed lots. I am talking 1,000s and 1,000s of cows in pen after pen. It's was crazy and quite potent.

Not much scenery, but pretty at times.

Day 3: Guymon, OK - Walsenburg, CO. 425 miles. We made it to Dodge City, KS on day 3. One of our main destinations. An old western town that was at one time or another, home to Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Trent's relative, Doc Holliday.

Trent standing by an old jail cell.

Me standing in the Boot Hill cemetery.

To escape the heat, we took a break and a cold drink in the dance hall/saloon.

The boys were pretty excited about this dance hall girl.

They went to church and repented of their many sins.

Trent watching an old time "movie."

Trent thought this was funny. (The gift shop sold paper that was made from cow manure.)

After riding across the flats plains for 3 days we were glad to see this.....

Mountains!!

We got to our hotel and watched the news. There were tornado warnings in Kansas and baseball-sized hail in one of the towns we had just gone through. Yikes!

Day 4: Walsenburg, CO - Blanding, UT. 366 miles. We were excited to get back to the mountains, but the closer to the mountains we got, the colder it got. We went over Wolf Creek Pass (elv. 10,863 ft.). Brrrrrrr! It was bitter bitter cold. It was really pretty but hard to enjoy because it was so cold.This is on the way up to the summit of the pass, up on top there was a lot more snow and it was windy. Very cold!

Looking back at the mountains we just rode through.

We stopped in Pagosa Springs to warm up and eat some lunch. Lunch was good, but we never warmed up. I was chilled for a few days.

It was a fun trip. Lots of miles, lots of states, hot weather, cold weather. Good times. I was glad that Trent let me go on their "boys trip." I can't wait to hear where the next trip will be.