Alex and I are on the road for a week. We’ve driven over to Colorado from Palo Alto.

Right now we are staying in Silverton, in Mark and Sarah’s caboose.

We will have plenty more blog posts from this trip when we get home. For now I will write about my ride yesterday because I am sitting in the sun at the end of the caboose looking at it.

When we arrived in town late yesterday, Alex suggested that I ride up Kendall Mountain (see pic) I thought it was a stupid idea so I did it. It’s a tough climb up a rutted loose road from 9300 to 13066 feet (3982 metres). At the top there are still snowdrifts across the road so I had to get off and push my bike over them.

The very top has no road which required a hand and foot scramble in bike shoes. I made it, spurred on by not daring to disappoint My fiancée.

I reached the top just in time for sunset and the most amazing view which I won’t share with you because I didn’t pack a camera (nor enough water).

The ride down in the quickly fading light i.e. dark was not too much fun. I returned into Silverton at 9:30pm, a full half hour before Alex was going to send her own rescue party, and too late for dinner at the POW, though the drinks were still flowing.

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