Friday

We spend the night in Raton New mexico. It was a neat little town surrounded by mesas all around. We started out around 9am heading toward colorado state line. After we corssed into colordao the road crossed a small mountain. Our bikes slowed down to about 65 MPH. They just would not go any faster.
These bike are really to small for a cross country trip.
   We then rode to the Royal Gorge bridge. We rode across the bridge and visited the attractions.
We then headed over to Pikes Peak and was going to ride to the top. But the the 4pm rush hour traffic was to much. So we looked for a room and thought we would ride up then next day. Come to find out all the rooms are booked. There was some kind of running Marathon the next day up the mountain.So we headed north on 25 the traffic was stopped it took nearly and hour to go 8 miles. Finely we stated moving. Now we needed gas so we pulled off an exit that said gas station so we head down the country road till  we came upon country store they had gas. We decided to sit on their bench and have a drink. The store was busy and lots of people talked to us. Everyone was getting pizza from this store.They all said it was the best pizza around. Here is the bench and the store at Larkspur Colorado
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We got a room in Castle Rock.