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Congratulations! I know you've been wanting to head out to Colorado for a few years.
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Very cool Greg, maybe you'll make the SWTF next year. I'm sure you'll be able to meet up with Mike (FCTush, Montrose) and/or Bob (wrwallpi, Grand Junction) some time. There are a few miles between though.
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You mean driving across western states isn't as short as going across Connecticut or Rhode Island? 
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Congratulations!  I lived in Glenwood Springs, Colorado for 7 years went to school in Greeley and still have a sister in Broomfield. You'll not be too be far from Rocky Mountain National Park where there will be plenty of cool roads to ride your bike.  The more I type the more I envy you. What the heck am I doing in Oklahoma?  I hope everything goes well.
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Much more scenic though . You can see for hundreds of miles  . The days sometimes don't seem to be long enough when you're riding, even in the summer.
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Well, as your grandpa used to say...."HOT ******", Greg! I'm very glad for ya, ol' buddy!!! Ya see, didn't I tell ya to keep pluggin' away and eventually this would all happen?! (...yeah well, okay...maybe your grandpa might've said that too!)  Congrats!!!!  (...and yep, like Bill said, we'll expect to see ya at next year's SWTF!!!)
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I think I might be able to squeeze it in. One thing that I have noted when using Gasbuddy.com to plan gas stops is that there are a few gaps in the trip from Denver to Flagstaff that are outside of our fuel range!  But, after some further digging, I think I have found the right mix of towns to keep me under 150 miles per fill up. Really not that much into pushing my bike for 150 miles, even if it is through beautiful southwestern scenery (thinking that scene from "Wild Hogs" where they miss the sign for "last gas for 300 miles" although that wouldn't help a Harley or our bikes much!)
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Mike and Bob have made the trip several times. Hook up with them.
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Congrats! 
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Good luck to ya Greg, hope it all works out for ya. 
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I think I might be able to squeeze it in. One thing that I have noted when using Gasbuddy.com to plan gas stops is that there are a few gaps in the trip from Denver to Flagstaff that are outside of our fuel range!
But, after some further digging, I think I have found the right mix of towns to keep me under 150 miles per fill up. Really not that much into pushing my bike for 150 miles, even if it is through beautiful southwestern scenery (thinking that scene from "Wild Hogs" where they miss the sign for "last gas for 300 miles" although that wouldn't help a Harley or our bikes much!)
Finding gas is not a problem. It helps to have a couple of singles in your pocket to get rid of the panhandlers in Tuba City though. 
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Un-employment is a much over rated leisure activity...... congratulations on your westward migration..... don't get stuck in a mountain pass in the winter , watch out for snakes and as far as the new job... sic'em !
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Well Greg, I'm happy for you, and hope life in OK turn out like this clip from their tourist board http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpNeHMlJiD4
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well, I officially put in my 2 weeks today. No one was shocked (my screen saver at work is Sprague Lake at Rocky Mountain National Park), but will miss me I think. Good folks, just not right for me. I finish here on July 22, and head west on July 23, and should be starting work on July 27-28 (depends on how far my wife can handle driving each day since she's following me in a 26' U-haul!) 14 days and counting...
I might add that lately my attitude has taken on an unexplained upbeat tone. Hmmm?
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Well Greg, I'm happy for you, and hope life in OK turn out like this clip from their tourist board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpNeHMlJiD4
Bryn my friend, Hill and I live in OK. Bayern is moving to Colorado if I am not mistaken. This is the song he needs to travel by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwARpaKHx_w
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Well Greg, I'm happy for you, and hope life in OK turn out like this clip from their tourist board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpNeHMlJiD4
Bryn my friend, Hill and I live in OK. Bayern is moving to Colorado if I am not mistaken. This is the song he needs to travel by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwARpaKHx_w
Uh huh Paul, but I hope Greg doesn't ALSO need to get a haircut like that now TOO, does he???!!!
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Man...I wish I could do the same....Airtran Airways management SUX.....Im stuck there now for 14 years....can't find a better paying job...YET...Believe me....IM LOOKING!!!
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Well Greg, I'm happy for you, and hope life in OK turn out like this clip from their tourist board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpNeHMlJiD4
Bryn my friend, Hill and I live in OK. Bayern is moving to Colorado if I am not mistaken. This is the song he needs to travel by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwARpaKHx_w
Ooops, my bad 
I've got no idea why I thought Oklahoma, apart from a possible brain malfunction at that time
So apologies to all
I am now going to hide in the corner and hope nobody looks at me 
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No problem. I listened to the whole OK. cut. It made me feel better about not getting to move to Colorado too. I love it when the wind comes rustling through plains.  Plus we have some of the prettiest sunsets in the country.  Yes Dwight you have to get the John Denver haircut at the KS/CO border. It's state law.
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Greg; Glad to hear you are finally able to move to Colorado. I grew up in metro Denver and have riding Colorado for over 40 years. If you need ride suggestions or need someone to ride with, give me a holler. In fact, it's a beautiful day and I'm on my way out the door for a 175 mile ride over Hoosier Pass. ---Bob 303-877-5483 Cell bkoenig1@mac.com 
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In fact, it's a beautiful day and I'm on my way out the door for a 175 mile ride over Hoosier Pass.
I hate you Bob...
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Yes Dwight you have to get the John Denver haircut at the KS/CO border. It's state law.
Hey...wait a minute, Paul!
Are you absolutely sure that at the KS/CO border they don't give each and every Newcomer a duly notarized form, time and date stamped, which allows them 5 full business days in order to continue their travels to the State Capitol, and then actually GET their official John Denver haircut IN Denver???!!!
(...well, at least that's what I'VE heard anyway!!!)
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Bryn my friend, Hill and I live in OK. Bayern is moving to Colorado if I am not mistaken. This is the song he needs to travel by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwARpaKHx_w
Paul, I'm officially banned from playing that song, for, oh, say 20-30 years or so. It has been played to DEATH over the past 5 years or so around here, and to make matters worse, my 14 year old LOVES the song and so every time we get in the car, it's playing before I even get the key in the ignition! But, he and I will be riding the U-haul, and he naturally has the song on his I-Pod, so you can bet it will be blaring as soon as we cross the KS/CO state line, and then again as soon as we catch the first glimpse of the Front Range! As for the haircuts, well let's just say that I'm responsible for all family haircuts in our house, so you can take a wild guess at what we'll all look like shortly. Now if I can just find those round glasses....
Now, my other favorite song related to this search is "Fire on the Mountain" by Marshall Tucker, which seems very well-suited to a guy who moved his family from Carolina seeking fortune in the west and had a long painful journey getting there! Hopefully, I don't end up like the guy in the song, shot down in his grave just for the thrill of hearing a .44 gun....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AChK4jBkxs0
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Yep Greg, good choice there! And, in keeping with this Country Rock theme ya got goin' on here, I'll bet in your mind even now you're probably.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWeUDrWzk4U
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dwight, that might as well be my anthem at work right now!
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Welcome to the Centennial State, my friend. I remember when you were trying to get out here, and ended up in CN, instead of CO. Those gates you see across the interstate, are, unfortunately not to keep riff-raff out, but to close them when it snows or blows. Remember that when riding between October and May, the second week of June, and if on the Divide, the Fourth of July.
Looking forward to catching up w/ you about next SWTF time (that should be some time in late-May, early-June; right, Dwight???????????)
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Colorado, beautiful state. One word of caution though; never, never drink from a cool mountain stream without first checking upstream. Why, you ask? Well, there just might be a dead mule just around the bend.  That's my hiking Colorado memory (but that water sure tasted good up to that point).
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