Thursday...to home

We had a beautiful ride across Trail Ridge Road with Tom & Pat on Thursday. They weren’t used to wearing all their leathers after coming from 100 degree heat in Sturgis! We left for Keystone & Sturgis, South Dakota at 5 am on Friday & it took us 7 hours. We had a beautiful ride around Custer Park & Mt. Rushmore. We had our bikes back on the trailer before the rain began. We had heavy rain on our way to Sturgis with many bikes & cars stopped by the side of the road because of the rain. After arriving in Sturgis the rain stopped enough for us to be able to walk Main Street & get some shopping in. Main Street is closed to traffic except for motorcycles and they are parked in 4 rows for many blocks and down every side street. There were BIKES EVERYWHERE!! About midnight (Michigan time) we decided we didn’t care to pitch our tent in the campground we reserved & there were NO hotels with vacancy in the area & the weather forecast called for more thunderstorms we decided to head East until we were tired & find hotel…. We never stopped at a hotel and arrived home Saturday night at 10:00 pm after driving for 22 hours…..