We went to lunch at the Elk Creek Mining Co. Bar & Grill. They have this burger called the mother lode, and they challenge anyone to eat 2 and 2 orders of their buffalo chips in 45 mins or less and your meal is free!
If you like meat you may be up to the challenge...I think my son JT could easily get his name on a plaque.
Do you think you could eat this meal in 45 minutes or less??? Two Motherlode Burgers with 2 sides of Buffalo chips! Not me I had the daily special and on Thursday it comes with a $4 Mojito!
so far there's 3 plaques, with 13 winners since 2008...
$4 Thursday Special Mojito Mom stuck with her favorite, coffee.
Elk Creek Mining Co Bar & Grill in New Castle
the Basalt Chamber of Commerce is in this old RR Car
A few days later we took a drive east back towards Glenwood Springs and picked up hwy 82 south through the town of Basalt and then onto the Frying Pan River Road, one of the prime fly fisheries in this area.
not even the weekend yet
it was kinda overcast and it sprinkled on us a bit
the road follows the river...
the road follows the river...
And then once we got up higher we took a dirt road off the main road to a spot where we had hopes of having a picnic...we love picnics cause it's a way for us to get out in nature and Mom can be included.
... it drizzled so we hung close to the van and ate...which was okay as we soon had some, uninvited but a 10 on the cute scale, company
and he brought some friends....
and they brought some friends...
Steller's Jay
"Hey, get back here with that bread!"
...back on the drive we found all kinds of "aww" moments...like someone's hollyhock flowers
and Mother Nature's flowers adorned the Reservoir...
Ruedi Reservoir
My camera is still having problems the lens seems stuck a little and that is why the black circles are in the corners. Sometimes I take the time to edit them out and sometimes I don't...this is the Apsen Yacht Club Marina in the corner of the lake below...
We stopped at this day use area to use the facilities...a family was there paddle boarding...or something similar!
I think a couple of the kids had some problems! LoL
got mud?
and they walked barefoot on gravel...OUCH!
We turned around in the settlement of Meredith....at the Post Office my sis retired from , it's extremely quaint...
then it was time to head home...
roadside pine siskins
...add our names to the mother-lode plaque of wonderful day trips!
PEACE
Every day is a new Adventure.
Photos for this post from Google photos jthic Frying pan 2017
