Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 Cruised south in search of fun roads to ride. I even found a cool bar to hang out at after the ride. I present to you; Mary's Bar in Cerillos...Once you get past the dirt streets, wandering dogs and lack of people, it's a cool litle town...They have a Catholic Church intown, so there's gotta be people here on Sunday.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 The road into town was curvy, smooth and had a lot of twisties. But it wasn't exactly what ya called "paved"'. Need some knobbies for the ST....Great scenery though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 Enough off-roading in the rent-a-racer, let's get back to some tarmac. We continue our recon and find some good roads to ride that I haven't been on before...Old,bombed out adobe buildings from days gone by are everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 I just love checking out old buildings along the way; to look at their construction methods, to wonder what happened to them and to just be nosy...Most were made during the 1860's by miners duirng the silver and gold rush. Crudely made from local materials. You have to admire the fact that they made bricks from the dirt and doors and windows from scraps of wood that they found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 We drive into Las Vegas (no, not that Las Vegas - the New Mexico one) for some lunch. This town was built duirng the gold rush as well and hasn't changed much at all. It'd be a tourist mecca if it were in the east, but towns like this are all over the place out here so it's just another small town.We fall in to the Plaza Hotel's bar for ssome chow..Ya gotta love the horseshoe bar stools... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 The rest of the town square area is just as cool... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 The drug store even had a soda fountain and seating area in it. Reminded me fo the new CVS they put up by my house... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 More of Las Vegas... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 We hump it back to Santa Fe before the storm hits. We're supposed to get 8-20" of snow tonight and tomorrow. We head out to dinner and it's snowing like a bitch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 We're late eaters and lotsof the places ahve closed early due to the weather. But we find a cozy bar to plop into for drinks and chow...More food pics - I love the food here, always hot and spicy - started withthe cheese and bacon filled jalapenos. Hotter than shit!I have the blue corn chicken enchiladas slathered with the requisite red and green chiles...The wife had a burger. A fuckin' burger! No food pictures for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 We amble across the street after dinner and into the La Fonda's Hotel bar(see http://www.lafondasantafe.com/foodbev/lounge.html ) so I can get a few more beers in me because I just haven't had enough these past few days. Judy opts for some spiced rum or some girly shit like that...Self portrait in t he bar mirror...Nice place... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 I'm drunk and it's time to head back to the hotel. Although the tracks in the snow would indicate otherwise, we have the town to ourselves....Home sweet home.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shittygsxr Posted December 23, 2008 Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 who is that creapy guy looking at you??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 exploring for roads is going tobe very limited today due to the 2 feet of snow on the ground. Hope to get up to Taos, but may not be able.More pics later........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 who is that creapy guy looking at you???That, my friend, is one handsome sumabitch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 Just peeked out of the hotel room window - still snowing like a beeatch.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 (edited) Not much else to do today so the wofe and I head up into the hills and to Los Alamos. Great scenery with the show covered hills on the horizon.I want this guy's house - what views! Edited December 31, 2008 by Earache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 (edited) Christmas Day and we're leaving Santa Fe and driving around 420 miles north to Gateway, Colorado. Should take about 6 hours of driving through some of the best scenery in the USA.Leaving Santa Fe, it's bright and sunny...About 50 miles north and it starts to cloud up -nasty looking, dark blue clouds that tend to hold a lot of moisture... Edited December 31, 2008 by Earache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 (edited) Crap. This isn't gonna be any fun at all. The road goes from this...to this...and then to this... Edited December 31, 2008 by Earache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 (edited) It snowed 23" this day. We passed a piece of equipment parked off the side of the road - look at the snow piled up on the mast of the truck...We didn't stop to take any pics as I wasn't sure I could get moving again. The snow plows were the only other vehicles out this day, but we only saw them about once every other hour or so. Edited December 31, 2008 by Earache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 (edited) It's getting quite dark and I'm beginning to think that putting my wife in danger of being stranded on the rural roads wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done... Edited December 31, 2008 by Earache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 (edited) Even a deer taking refuge under a tree looked at me as if to say "what the fuck are you doing out here?"...Just at dusk, the sun peeked out from under the clouds to give us the last glimmer of light before nightfall....We crept along at 15 mph during the whiteout portionsof the storm, barely able to see the sign posts on the road and made it to gateway, Colorado...in 13 hours. Never wanna do that again. Edited December 31, 2008 by Earache Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 The next day dawns bright and sunny, we're at our favorite place in the World; Gateway!This place is owned by John Hendricks; founder of the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, the Military Channel and loads of other channels I don't watch. He loved the area and built this first class hotel here as there isnt' another hotel - or anything else for that matter - within 75 miles.It has a gas station, grocery store, car museum, spa, horse stables and loads of other stuff.And we are the only ones here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 View of the restaurant and bar from our room...It's getting cloudy now....Snow blowing off of the canyon rim...10 minutes later and it's snowing again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 It's only a couple of inches, so it won't impede our trip down the canyon and onto Bedrock, Colorado...Halfway there and the sun comes out again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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