Early Colorado Photos

So apparently the Wild Ride post deserves some photos...look here and enjoy!

I would like to dedicate today's ride into Pueblo to the Crowley Family. Many years ago, when I (first) adored Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and played with Legos, I spent many an afternoon playing in the yard of these wonderful neighbors. More avid cyclists than I, they were quite supportive of my trek and I thank them enormously.

I've just spent afternoon relaxing in Pueblo's stellar library, exploring their Refugee museum and demolishing a Batman graphic novel. Oh and finished Nicholas Nickleby! Favorite quotes...

Nicholas, in light of his lost employment after defending abused school children: "What is a little poverty or suffering, to the disgrace of the basest and most inhuman cowardice! I tell you, if I had stood by, tamely and passively, I should have hated myself, and merited the contempt of every man in existence."

In light of the steep climbs to come after our Blitz Build in Colorado, I turn to Dickens: "It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last."