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At my old job, I rode lots of multi-state rides to attend meetings rather than flying there. IF tghe meeting was in an area thatr I wanted to ride to, I just headed there the weekend before the meeting on the bike. Rode to Connecticut and upstate New York a couple of times and did Chicago often on the bike.

Hi Bruce - welcome! Everytime I ride my bike it seems it's an adventure of some sort. Doesn't have to be off road or around the World - could be a nip down to the shops.

Pete needs an XR650R so he can be cool, too....

Clean as a whistle in the desert....

The whole HD thing is just so tired - let it die for fuck's sake.

You're gonna need to wedge a motor in there soon.

Busloads of people from Denver. They bus in the workers and the gamblers. Few people that live here actually go to the casinos and few work there as well. But us locals pay very low property and sales taxes as the casinos are taxed so heavily so it works out well for us. I live 8 miles out of town and rarely go down that way so it doesn;t affect me too much.

Loved the castle pics - thanks for posting. Cuttlefish??? Oh Hell no !

I was trying to show a little more of what town looks like - it's not all bombed out log cabins and mountains....although there is a lot of that as well. I really look forward to your pics of the pubs (once they open) and towns. Having only been to Spain twice years ago, the architecture is cool. We stayed in Cadiz and Rota when we went to the Jerez MotoGP years ago - almost forget what it looks like. Need to go back some day.

So ends today's excursion. More later.....

Roof has a bit of a sag in it...

Some of the other buildings in Apex are behind barbed wire - I wasn't about to risk getting shot by climbing over it for a better pic....

I was impressed with how much timber he cleared for his yard. Must have used the trees for his cabin...

Still has a one seater out back, too....

Perfect example of a gold miner's cabin from the 1800's. Still in really nice shape, too!

Building with the flat front was a hotel in the 1880's, the other was the restaurant next door....

On to the local ghost town; Apex Valley. It's located about 7 miles north of Balck Hawk and one mile south of my house. On a dead end dirt road, very few people go up there. Several old abandoned houses and a hotel up there...

Downtown Black Hawk - one of our two streets. We have a few casinos in town but that's about it. No other businesses...

Lots of rock climbers come to this area for the vertical climbs, look on the canyon walls and you'll see them. Lots of kayakers as well....

Riding back up the canyon, shooting pics as I ride, so they are kinda blurry at times. Six tunnels on the way...

Woohoo - rockin' in the big city. Gassed up and then back up the canyons to Black Hawk... Link to Astor House: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_House_(Golden,_Colorado)

This little house on the outskirts of Golden is abandoned, but looks nice enough to live in. A bit small, but still nice enough...

This guy makes me mad - his horses have a better house then I do! Jealous.

Hills aren't nearly as big as we go down in elevation, but the roads are nice!

This one kinda pisses me off - it's nice enough (on the outside) to actually live in. Nice stone buildings been sitting here empty for years...