Fish n Chips Travel the world: Limon - Monument via New Life Church and Pike's Peak

Sunday 20th July
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As we leave this morning we had noticed a Maccas on google maps at the other end of Limon so decided on the way out to go there for breakfast, just as we pulled up and were taking off our helmets three large buses with probably 200 young people on them pulled up too. These young people just kept coming and coming until there was a sizeable line right out the door!! We promptly donned our helmets and took off ha ha

Another 50 miles or so down the road towards Colorado Springs we found another one we almost had the place to ourselves.

Then we rode on to New Life Church and enjoyed their 9am service. I was hoping to catch up with the lovely Lisa Bevere but she wasn't there. We met some lovely people though and they all made us feel very welcomed. We enjoyed a cuppa in the cafe before riding over to Garden of the God's. We rode through and it was so hot in this area that we were glad not to get off. We then made our way over to Pike's Peak.

It wasn't very far to the base of Pike's Peak but the 19 mile drive up there was very steep and windy!! It took us about an hour and a half to ride up and was very interesting at times due to the fact that the hydraulic clutch was not working very well. We think it may have been a combination of old oil, hot oil and altitude (summit is over 14,000 ft). We stopped up the top for lunch and the clutch oil cooled down and worked ok on the way down. It was very difficult being at that altitude even for such a short time and not doing anything very strenuous. I cannot imagine people doing treks for long periods at altitude. I foiund myself having to take big gulps of air regularly. As we were leaving I saw a man lighting a cigarette and could not believe it.

From there we rode back up the highway to Monument and our lovely accomodation at Sundance Mountain Lodge. We did some washing and had a swim in the pool. We headed up to the restaurant for dinner only to find it closed on Sundays. It had just started to rain and we really didn't want to ride anywhere so we asked at the desk if there was anywhere within walking distance so we christened our SOFT rainbow umbrella and started walking to a restaurant when we stumbled on Pike's Peak Brewery huzzah!!! really nice beers and we chatted to one of the staff there Adam and he gave us a few free samples to allow us to make up our minds. Dinner was a meat and cheese platter mmm yum!