ferret down

[LongRanger_imp]

I was too spooked to ride yesterday, but today I wheeled out the CB and rode a very scenic, curvy, 215-mile loop in ferret's honor. These are the same roads ferret, offroadfx4 and I enjoyed last summer, except today I threaded the best segments together into one fabulous loop. Some of the highlights included CO67 (Deckers), Park County Road 77 (Tarryall), Guanella Pass, and Echo Lake / Squaw Pass. Deals Gap has nothing on these roads!

Along the way, I stopped for breakfast at one of my favorite diners in Woodland Park, CO. Normally the place is crawling with motorcycles, but today there was only one other bike in the parking lot. I pulled up and parked my CB next to it. What was the other bike? A blue FJR. Very weird. I wanted to snap a photo but he was already gone by the time I left. But across the parking lot, I spied the back of a white Suzuki with four small exhausts poking out from beneath the rear fairing and just above the swingarm. It could only mean one thing: RG500 Gamma. Yep. This is the first Gamma I've seen in over twenty years. I was surprised to see it had a mph-speedometer, not a km/h-speedometer.

Anyway, here's today's route if anyone is interested. I'm calling it Ferret's Flyway, in his honor. Get well, brother!