 I'm in my happy place What a great spot and the stars last night were Incredible as always they're always incredible, but when you're out here with no light pollution you see all of them in the Milky Way It's like we were walking around a planetarium Good morning Good morning my friends. How are you? Good morning my man. How'd you sleep? Always good These sourdough pancakes they are from my buddy Crawford gave us some starter a little oatmeal gotta have fiber Fiber is always good. I think I'm dreaming Sourdough pancakes for breakfast usually I'm eating Nutella on a tortilla. This is way better pancake cheers everybody Oh Wait, look it's Larkin. Hi, when did you show up? Last night last night treasure hunting for friends So this is one of my dear friends Larkin and he happens to be in the area flying his paraglider And he came and found me last night here and look at us now Look at us smiley sourdough pancakes exactly Marsha. Thank you so much for everything. You are amazing Can't wait to see you again soon. Absolutely. You got to come to Boulder. We'll do it. You'll do it And I don't know if you know this, but I'm taking your husband. Oh boy. Oh boy All right, good. All right, thank you have a wonderful day. Are you excited to ride bud? I am always excited right, but I am taking the e-bike today. Oh, yeah, okay? Come back up. No crash. She's no Lettie's no whammy. That's right. None of those things gonna have a great morning. Let's do it, Alan Oh It's another beautiful day on planet earth and I've got a new riding partner for at least a little bit I sure love starting the day on a downhill. This is great Alan's got that e-bike He's pacing me up these hills Man Those things move Aren't you coming with me all the way? Not going. I am going back uphill. That was that that was a good seven mile No, let's see seven point nine miles downhill right on so that was some good down hill Yeah, it was and now I'm gonna go some good up hill. That's right, buddy. Thank you again for everything Such a good surprise super and I'll see you in Boulder. That's right. You better come to Boulder Go get one of those dozeritos. Yeah. Yeah, you got to do it man. Have a good one brother See you later What a great guy what a wonderful couple they've been married 43 years, I think and we stayed up late last night talking and You know, they were unable to have children But they sound like they're very involved in the community in Gunnison where they're from and big brothers big sisters programs and you can tell that they They love caring for people. They love helping people and they got into biking and they follow the tour divide race And they come up there every year and feed the racers and the other tourists coming through and Hearts of gold absolute hearts of gold and meeting people like that Just builds my faith in humanity knowing that there are people out there like Alan and Marsha Just makes me feel Safer makes me feel like yeah, we got this Humanity there are still so many good people on this planet the majority of the people on this planet are good and when I see them it really just reinforces that and So cool that he came out and rode with me this morning. We had a great little downhill bomber session for seven miles and It's great. Now. I feel fueled and recharged and my heart and soul are happy and heading off now toward Del Norte, I think the locals call it del Norte Which is just a horrible bastardization of the Spanish language, but that's all right And this is a part of Colorado. I've never really seen before look at these like canyon walls and stuff This isn't usually what I see in Utah, but we got it here, too. I guess It's not windy today at least not yet. It's completely still and I love it Heading up another pass right now car narrow pass. I don't think it's too big We'll be up and over this in no time Morning cows. How are you? All right made it to the top of car narrow pass 10,166 feet just a little baby pass 10,000 is like the right height It's if you go up to like 13 14 then you notice there's not much oxygen in the air and the breathing becomes Pretty difficult, but 10,000 all good Well, that's it's all good for a guy from Boulder who lives at 5,500 feet, but it's pretty mild now These are some serious Canyon walls Reminds me of the scene the never-ending story When a Trey you has to go through the Arches or something and he has to believe in himself Looks just like this or at least in my mind. It does hot day Very kind of loving this part of Colorado It reminds me of Utah a little bit and especially of Baja these mountain Buttes and vistas and piles of rocks out here It's very majestic Definitely a part of my state. I've never seen And it's good looking Colorado you impressed me every day if I ever wanted to live in the middle of nowhere This might be the spot. So I got this little tiny house Perfect size big windows looks like it has a wood burning stove It's surrounded by All this amazing beauty Maybe I could pull that off someday not now maybe later in life though I like Boulder too much to leave. I love the community all the friends. I grew up with her there my family my mama My brothers were in Colorado Yep But I do see the allure of living out here for sure This is one of the more fun roads. I've ridden in Colorado Our dirt roads are so nice that they're kind of boring, but this got some whoop-de-doos And it's you know Little more interesting. I like it the town of del Norte del Norte and I saw the creek and I was like yep It's time to go into the washing machine This is a pretty sweet spot, and it's a Saturday. So there's lots of other people here as well And yeah, this is the place to be in del Norte I've already ridden like 65 miles, and it's 2 p.m. I think this might be the end of the day for me I'm at a restaurant in del Norte, and I'm gonna give you three seconds to guess what type of food. I am eating One two three. Oh Yeah Free ho-lays for the win I Just found a treasure. This is a palisade peach and these are famous all over Colorado It's a place called palisade that grows these awesome peaches and instead of ice cream today I'm going for a little bit of hot Colorado homegrown yumminess Like how juicy it is. It's a beautiful evening to have some gas station pizza for dinner right there But that's not the exciting part of where I am right now. Look at this beach front property or riverfront property There are some times on a bike tour when you're really just Pleased with yourself and you get to a moment like this and it's a beautiful evening And you have plenty of food and water and flat ground to put your tent And your body feels pretty darn good where you're just like yeah I'm doing it and this is great This is one of those moments and I'm cherishing it for sure