Rocky loves Emily! Rocky loves Emily!

Three ninjas anyone?
That title is completely irrelevant except that we are climbing mountains by the name of Rocky.
So three days in one:
Met Thomas in Pueblo after out rest day and we got a late start after he finished getting ready and we wandered around the bike store for a little bit. We rode 50 some miles from Pueblo to Canon city and camped at an RV park.
Yesterday we started in Canon city with intent to make it to Hartsel, but after a 3000 ft gain in elevation we stopped for lunch in Guffey and we were convinced by many factors to stay there having only ridden about 33 miles. It was maybe the best decision of the trip though, and definitely the best place we've stayed.
To try to put the wonderful town of Guffey into words: rough and tumble, time-warped, antique-y, hospitable, small, greasy, full of dead things, and well kept to seem unkempt. All of those in the best way possible.
Our little room was a log cabin with drop down bunks. The STARS WERE AWESOME. And we hung out with the GGG (Guffey Garage Gang) for a while. A bunch of old greasy long-haired men who spend their days working on old engines, makin hot rods, and watching swamp people on the little tv in their garage, drinking milwaukee's best out of tin can coozies. It rocked. Thomas was initiated into the gang, and Bill, the leader, gave me two free post cards and a great hug and shoulder kiss when he said goodbye;)
We were gonna wake up early and get a good start, but we are who we are, so we slept in and got breakfast at the restaurant in town. Third meal there.
We rode almost 50 miles to Fairplay, because we decided it would be better to have Breckenridge as a nice long lunch stop rather than a tired, useless night. Also the head wind was killer and we decided we would rather not climb Hoosier pass while it was berating us so.
The Roadkill count has itself become roadkill. I was beginning to resent keeping count of all the dead things I saw. The second half of this trip will be focused on LIFE!

And oh yeah, I'm in Colorado, climbing the Rockies. NBD.