A in-between the storms ride!

Jo and I double up'ed on the scoot for a lunch ride down to a tiny diner in Texas Creek, CO. It's a one buliding hamlet on CO. Hwy. 50 outside of Canon City, CO.  We've had dire warning of severe thunderstroms all week and of course Jo had to take some, "Use it Loose it" vacation time and the weather is crud!! :(  Today seems the only day we will get a bit of a break for the whole week she's off so we headed out.

We had been using our old "sport touring" style full face helmets and found they don't work well with "cruisers" that have the speedo on the gas tank, ie: You can't see the speedo!!!  So we rode down to one of the local shops and found some nice open faces, with a trick "pull down sunshade system", or so we thought.  The pull down sunshades were useless, luckly they "retract" into the helmet so we just put on the sun glasses and headed south on Hwy. 115 to pick up Hwy. 50.  Well that didn't work well either, the wind force was smashing Jo's glasses into her nose and I was having a hell of a time with my sunglasses wanting to fly off !!  So we stopped at the scooter shop in Florence, CO. and got some clip on visors with flip shields and that solved the problems! :)

Took the back way on Old Hwy. 115 into Canon City and got back on 50W. heading up to ride through "Big Horn Sheep Canyon" along the Arkansas River, it was great as the road flows with the curves in the river and I let the "mighty" single, LOL, haul buns thru the wide sweeping corners!  Got to Texas Creek Diner, had some good chicken tenders and homemade french fries with a large sprite, YUM. Thought about riding up to Westcliffe but the clouds were turning black and ugly! So we headed for home, stopped in Canon City for gas, then let the dark strom clouds chase us all the way back to the barn in the Springs. Luckly we never got wet, that's a good ride! The weather is turning to total curd for the next two days, hopefully it will clear out for the Poker Run on Saturday, Live is GOOD! :)