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Well, somewhere about lunchtime Camilo mentions that he forgot one of his prescriptions, but he called and the Walgreens in Las Vegas, NM will have it waiting for him. So, no problem, right? Yeah, we made good time to LV, checked into the hotel and headed for Walgreens. Then Debbie does the earlier mentioned tuck and roll when her downhill foot misses the ground. Then Camilo finds out the pharmacy part of the store closed a couple of hours before and he can't get his prescription until 10am the next morning. Well, that isn't going to happen. So, the next to cities of any size on our route are Taos and Pagosa Springs. PS doesn't have a Walgreens so that is out. Taos pharmacy doesn't open until 10am and it is only 61 miles as a crow files from LV. So that was out in my opinion. Time for our first route change. Durango instead of the Creede/Lake City side of the mountains. Oh, my first picture of the trip. Spank on Debbie's bike.
Yes, he needs to tuck that tail in. Wife pointed that out. She needs to get her mind out of the gutter.
Back on topic, off to Taos. Of course curvy mountain roads take longer that going as the crow flies. As we roll past the Walgreens in Taos, i notice it is 10:01am. No big deal, Camilo has the prescription set up in Durango so we keep rolling. Next stop is the bridge over the Rio Grande gorge.
Our steeds for the trip:
From there we continue west towards lunch in Chama, but we had some fun in some more mountains and had to stop for more pictures. Bike portraits, never can have too many of those.
I asked her if she was smiling and she said yes. I'll take it on faith.
So on to Chama and lunch at my usual place, the Elk Horn restaurant. Camilo double checked the Walgreens in Durango, but the pharmacy wasn't answering. Ever get that sinking feeling in your gut? Yep, Nadeem called the front desk and the pharmacist had a family emergency and went home. Well, just five minutes before that we had booked sites at the Ouray KOA. So we stuck with that plan instead of getting back on the main route. Off to Durango. As we pulled into town, Camilo says he wants to try the Walmart pharmacy. Yay, they can do it...in 30 minutes. We split up at that point and Scott, Debbie and I put on rain gear and head north. Yep, and we needed it right as we left Durango. We stop at the top of Molas Pass and I get a text from Donnie saying he has a rear seal leak and is turning back, trip over for him. Very sad to hear that, but it sounds bad. For some reason I didn't pull a camera out on Molas Pass. Scott and Debbie will have that covered. There were many pictures of Spank the monkey taken.
Apparently during Spank's photo shoot, Camilo and Nadeem passed us because they were checking into the KOA when we got there...with Donnie. Hey, thought you turned back? We, he had, but was far enough out in front that we met at the same place. He saw from our Spot tracking that we were headed there.
Bike consultation:
Nice campsite. Some of us went back into Ouray for a beer and a good dinner. Nadeem stayed back with Donnie to commiserate about his bike. That and some Jack Honey, which they did major damage to.
I'll pick up with the next day in my next post.
Yes, he needs to tuck that tail in. Wife pointed that out. She needs to get her mind out of the gutter.
Back on topic, off to Taos. Of course curvy mountain roads take longer that going as the crow flies. As we roll past the Walgreens in Taos, i notice it is 10:01am. No big deal, Camilo has the prescription set up in Durango so we keep rolling. Next stop is the bridge over the Rio Grande gorge.
Our steeds for the trip:
From there we continue west towards lunch in Chama, but we had some fun in some more mountains and had to stop for more pictures. Bike portraits, never can have too many of those.
I asked her if she was smiling and she said yes. I'll take it on faith.
So on to Chama and lunch at my usual place, the Elk Horn restaurant. Camilo double checked the Walgreens in Durango, but the pharmacy wasn't answering. Ever get that sinking feeling in your gut? Yep, Nadeem called the front desk and the pharmacist had a family emergency and went home. Well, just five minutes before that we had booked sites at the Ouray KOA. So we stuck with that plan instead of getting back on the main route. Off to Durango. As we pulled into town, Camilo says he wants to try the Walmart pharmacy. Yay, they can do it...in 30 minutes. We split up at that point and Scott, Debbie and I put on rain gear and head north. Yep, and we needed it right as we left Durango. We stop at the top of Molas Pass and I get a text from Donnie saying he has a rear seal leak and is turning back, trip over for him. Very sad to hear that, but it sounds bad. For some reason I didn't pull a camera out on Molas Pass. Scott and Debbie will have that covered. There were many pictures of Spank the monkey taken.
Apparently during Spank's photo shoot, Camilo and Nadeem passed us because they were checking into the KOA when we got there...with Donnie. Hey, thought you turned back? We, he had, but was far enough out in front that we met at the same place. He saw from our Spot tracking that we were headed there.
Bike consultation:
Nice campsite. Some of us went back into Ouray for a beer and a good dinner. Nadeem stayed back with Donnie to commiserate about his bike. That and some Jack Honey, which they did major damage to.
I'll pick up with the next day in my next post.