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[spyderbirds]

Day one on the road and took the opportunity to view the new Big Well in Greensburg KS. The whole site was redone (along with the entire town) after the EF5 tornado that wiped it out a few years back

then traveled on through ks and ok to NM border and our first nite in Clayton, NM




http://db.tt/xazNXzx3 <-- link to pics for this day

 

[spyderbirds]

Day two Sunday depart Clayton and visited Capulin volcano en route to Raton. Took secondary roads and saw literally hundreds of deer along this route.
Next a teaser jaunt into SC Colorado to run the Highway of Legends from Trinidad to walsenburg (hwy 12).

Back to Raton NM to end day two.



http://db.tt/ZOueyFyh <-- link to pics of the day

 

[spyderbirds]

Day three Monday depart Raton and ride the Enchanted circle,


a quick zip through the streets of Taos', the to the bridge over the rio grande gorge.


took hwy 64 all the way across NM to bloomfield for the night.
Saw a horrible wildfire in infant stages just east of Bloomfield that consumed some dwellings etc. lots of fuel as this part of NM is dryer than normal which is dry...



http://db.tt/qkcFVCBP <-- link to pics of the day

 

[flamingobabe]

sounds like y'all are having fun and a good ride...see yall....

 

[Cavman]

I got here a day early, Sunday. Lots of riders here already.

 

[spyderbirds]

I got here a day early, Sunday. Lots of riders here already.

Will roll into Durango Wednesday morning, Today is Monument Valley and the Four Corners Monument before staying in Cortez overnight.

 

[spyderbirds]

good day today, hot and windy but good ryde. saw three RT spyders all going opposite way. one near Monument Valley. one leaving four corners monument as we were arriving, one going the opposite direction on 160 in Cortez.



http://db.tt/3YfUrIHf <-- link to pics of the day

 

[Spyder601]

This trip looks amazing thanks for the pictures

 

[spyderbirds]

Met up with spyderrock in Cortez at gas/breakfast stop and rode into Durango with him. His ride is even more impressive in person than his pics show.



Link to some pics we took at day one of the owners event. --> http://db.tt/dzsOfXGM

 

[Dar]

Nice pics. What kind of mileage did you get pulling your trailer? Is that the MCT or MCTXL?

 

[spyderbirds]

Thursday we headed out for the Royal Gorge. and ended up at Durango KOA for the nite.

Pics of the day --> http://db.tt/ZpyWaDRv

Woke up to find the paw prints of some critter on the RT seat, not sure of the critter type but he obviously was thinking of getting one or why else would he try out our seat?



All in all was a great trip, The RT ran flawlessly.
The cumulative wind and heat along with the smoke from the fires across NM and CO sent us packing on home on Friday.
Not much to stop and see on our 460 mile track home so we just shot on in and got back about rush hour, we were welcomed back to civilization with a 10-15 minute traffic jam as we arrived back in Wichita :banghead:

Now back to work and time to decide on the next trip. We still need Arizona and California colored in on our states visited map out west, or will we go east next?

 

[spyderbirds]

Nice pics. What kind of mileage did you get pulling your trailer? Is that the MCT or MCTXL?

The trailer is the 2012 MCTXL version and we had it loaded pretty heavy, right at the towing limit. Averaged 28.3 over the entire trip and this was WITH the two bad tanks of fuel that only gave us 20 and 22 MPG. other than those two bad tanks every fill was either 29, 30 or 31 MPG.