Starting mileage: 71704
Ending mileage: 72083
Total miles for the day: 379
Beautiful sunrise. Finally got on the road about 8:30. Temperature about 72 degrees. Started out wearing my leather jacket and kept it on almost all day. Most of morning stayed in the mid-70's.
We did fine until we crossed over into New Mexico. Fred's Tourer has a smaller gas tank than my Interstate. We were planning on topping off his tank when we reached Clayton, New Mexico. Could not get gas. It seems the entire town had no electricity. NONE!!!
He figured he could make about 50-60 miles on what he had left but it was over 80 miles. As I did not have any faith in finding gas between Clayton and Raton, we decided to cut speed down to 55-60 and see if we could stretch the gas out. We had been running around 75.
After running slow speeds for about 50-60 miles we spotted a lone Sinclair station and managed to fill him up. After the slow riding decided to take off the jackets. Was still a little cool but felt good. After leaving Raton found I-25 shut down and we had to detour through Walsenburg.
Nice quiet little town with a long history. Temperature was getting up to mid-80's by then. So headed on.
Fred and Chantalle left me at US-24 heading up over the mountains to Frisco and I headed on into Colorado Springs to spend the night with my sister. It sure was looking like they were going to get rained on and trust they made it safely.Day
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