October 10--uh-oh...then Jamie's place

The beginning of the ride up from NM was beautiful. Nice cool weather, no clouds, lots of nice sunshine. Jamie had warned us about the section from above Albuquerque to Aztec, NM. It started out a little windy, but by the time we were 30 miles out from Aztec the wind was ferocious. Just as we arrived in Aztec, NM, Steve was having problems with the bike and it turned out we had a flat front tire. He pumped it up, and we headed for the nearest tire store to see if we could get it fixed. Three miles later at the store, it was going flat again. It was a bad valve stem causing the problem, and the tire store couldn’t fix it. So we headed west to Farmington to the Four Corners Harley Davidson dealer. Two stops later to pump up the tire, a Harley Rider stopped and asked if we needed help. At that point, we said yes, and he rode on to the dealer to have them send a truck. In the meantime, Steve decided to try it one more time (this time with duct tape!), and we drove into the dealer just as it was going flat again. They called their truck back and got our bike in the shop within a few minutes of our arrival. They were greattt! people and a great dealership, especially O.D. and Jeff. The dealership is just in the process of buying the local Honda dealer out. If you have a MC and are going through Farmington, NM stop by and see the dealership and buy something from them. They are awesome!!!

So what we thought was going to be a fairly short day, turned out much longer than we had thought. Jamie made reservations for us at local camp ground along Animas River in Durango and picked us up after we got set up and took us to fabulous restaurant. We got to see her apartment, her new bicycle, and she located her roommates in one of the local bars and introduced us. After a nice evening, Jamie took us home and we had showers and tucked ourselves in and got ready for an early start on our last day of riding.