Colorado

[Town of Blanding]

Before I'll start talking about Colorado I'll like to spend couple of extra words on Utah,
As you may already know Lior had a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, we had his motorcycle towed to a town name Blanding, it's a small town with mostly Native Americans and Mexicans.. We had to spend our entire Sunday there, We did took my bike to see Canyon-Land which wasn't that exciting.

On Monday we arrived at Moab to a local motorcycle shop named Arrowhead, basically the guy runs his business in his backyard. So he patched Lior's tire but there was still a minor leak.

[Balanced rock]

The last park we visited in Utah was Archs, there we saw the balancing rocks and Utah's delicate Arch which is printed on most license plates. 

[About to give up]

To get to the Arch you'll need to climb 2.5 km which I had no idea at the beginning of the trail, the sun was beating down hard on me, and just as I was ready to give up I've heard someone saying "It's right around the corner, two minutes and your there" I was filled with excitement, the hike was defiantly worth it.

[Delicate arch]

On the way up you pass by an old shack which was built about 100 years back by one of the first settlers in the area it's made entirely out of wood which I have no idea from where did they got wood in this place, the inside is simple a table and a chair. 

Leaving Archs Colorado was our goal with heavy rain behind us we got on the highway and were about to reach Colorado, we spent the night at a town called "Great Junction".

Waking up we found out the Lior tire was still leaking, we had no option but to get him a new one, being in a civilized town unlike Utah we had no trouble finding a shop nearby.
As Lior was getting his tire changed I had a nice conversation with a fellow name Richard who couldn't recognize my accent, turns out I'm the first Israeli he met.

With a new tire on we were able to make our way up the mountains and on to Aspen the view here is completely different from what we saw in Utah, Green mountains, rivers, lakes and cool air.

We've reached Aspan but decided not to stay as a big bicycle race was about to take place the very next day and the roads will be closed, so we kept on going until we've reach Leadville a small town way up in the mountains.

In the evening went out to find something to eat, the thin air caused my head to spin just a bit and it made it difficult for my bike to start the next morning.

Today we drove through the Rocky Mountains National Park, and took a short hike, at some point it started raining but this didn't stopped us from taking the time and photograph the Elks we saw on the side a hill, you need to be extra careful on the road in these altitudes as the fresh rain quickly turns into ice, and at every moment a dear might be crossing the road as it happened just recently on our way to our motel.

Tomorrow we'll cross over to Wyoming we've decided to visit Yellow-Stone, it should takes us about two days drive to get there. 

[Utah & Colorado]

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