Things just seem to get crazier every day. Here we are cycling along towards Aspen when we make a quick detour Basalt and drop right into a farmers market. The first person we greet turns out to be the mayor of the town who promptly invites us to come stay at her river front house. We unfortunately could not accept the offer since we had already made plans to continue on to Aspen this same day. However we asked her if we could display some photos from our trip for people to buy by donation. She said there is no problem with that.
As we sat there, a friendly woman approached us with a beautiful camera and asked if she could take our picture. She then showed lots of interest in our trip adventure and asked a lot of questions. It turned out that Laura was from the local news paper and had to get a good picture from the farmers market for next day's issue. She said our display was the most interesting thing she had seen that day so she kept snapping away.
Lo and behold, when we checked the paper next day, we found ourselves printed right on the second page. Soo cool. As we spent rest of the day in Aspen, several people recognized us and asked if we were the ones from the paper. What good fun this was.
Evening entertainment in Aspen. Many music student come here for summer classes and in the evenings they busk all over the town.
More music.....
Next day we set up our cards display next to the "Balloon Man". We decided to just hang out in Aspen for the day, sell some cards and then climb Independence Pass in the evening when it cools off. Shortly before we packed up, the Balloon Man came over and gave us a balloon butterfly for us to carry up to the pass. It almost made it but the decreased pressure at the higher elevation made it burst just a few miles from the top.
Aspen groves along the way to Independence Pass.
It was already dark when we finally reached the top. It was really cold but the stars were fantastic!!!!! After a quick photoshoot by the sign we rushed to get back down to lower elevations where we could sleep without getting altitude sickness.
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