We saw 2 dead armadillos We had lots of headwinds. This was probably the highest mileage day of our whole trip. I’m listening to “Deacon Copperhead”. That’s all, folks!
Day 30 – 20 miles west of Scott City KS to Newton, KS – 124 miles Read More »
Today started an hour later than expected – Mark had to change both tires on his bike. So, off we went expecting to cut our 120 mile day down to 80 miles. In the end we compromised at 100 miles, which means we’ll need to do 120 tomorrow. Ugh. The highlights of my day were:
Day 29 – Scott City KS to 20 miles west of Great Bend, KS – 100 miles Read More »
We’ve left “Incarceration Row” and are now in the “Feed Lot Belt”. So many cows. We’re not talking in terms of thousands here – we’re talking MILLIONS. And, they’re kinda smelly when the wind is blowing the “wrong” way. Today was a “people” day. We met 16 other cyclists going east to west to benefit
Day 28 – Eads, CO to Scott City, KS – 104 miles Read More »
We’re not in Kansas just yet (tomorrow) but have officially left the Rockies and anything resembling a mountain or even hill and are now smack dab in the middle of the flat plains. But, were not TOTALLY devoid of things to see: There’s cows: Another prison – this time the smallest one in the nation!
Day 27 – Pueblo CO to Eads CO – 111 miles Read More »
We’re a bit pooped. It was about time for us to do an easier day. We’d planned on over-sailing Pueblo by 30 miles, making tomorrow only 80 miles, but the heat and weariness got the better of us. Cañon City is pretty unremarkable except for the high security state prison, which seemed somewhat formidable but
Day 26 – Cañon City CO to Pueblo CO – 48 miles Read More »
We started the day off with a big climb up to Hoosier Pass at 11,500+ feet. Despite the thin air, the climb wasn’t too bad at a 4% average grade, but the shoulder was either non-existent, broken and uneven pavement, or sand/gravel for the climb and much of the descent though North, Middle and South
Day 25 – Breckenridge CO to Cañon City CO – 100 miles Read More »
Loooooove Breckenridge! As we cycled the mountains got bigger, greener and, well, more mountain-like rather than roly poly. We’re pretty high up here – 9660 feet. We were going to try for the extra 10 miles to summit the 11,500’ Hoosier Pass but decided to mooch around town instead, get acclimated and try tomorrow. We
Day 24 – Kremmling, CO to Breckenridge, CO – 59 miles Read More »
Loooong, but fun and varied day. We departed Park City at 06:00 for the 6 hour drive back to where we left off on Thursday and started our ride at 12:30. Thinking we’d “just stop when we were ready “ we had our planned 81 miles for the day PLUS 22 miles we didn’t do
Day 23 – Colorado/Wyoming border to Kremmling, CO – 103 miles Read More »
It’s great to be back home for a few nights! After our cycle to the Colorado state line we drove home to the Park City area to have a short rest, show Sue and Brad our area, get a massage, catch up on mail and see friends. Friday we did sightseeing and catch up, unpacked
Days 21 and 22 – Park City, UT 2 Rest Days Read More »
Sooooo, south central Wyoming – not much to say about today. If you read yesterday’s blog about “dry and bumpy”, we had A LOT more of the same EXCEPT: We’ve never ridden past an oil refinery (Sinclair). Ugh. The shoulders became very poor the last third of the ride, narrow and super busy with trucks.
Day 19 – 28 miles east of Lander, WY to 13 miles SE of Rawlins, WY – 113 miles Read More »
