Tammy and Marks’ big ride across the USA
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 »
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 »
HAPPY JULY 4th!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 What a day! Pretty easy riding for the first 42 miles. We went through the gold mining towns of Nevada City and Virginia City which are both national historic landmarks (who knew?) Being towns 2 miles from each other and heavy duty mining (and railroad and thriving and murder) hubs, the towns
Day 13 – Dillon, MT to Ennis MT – 71 miles Read More »
More wind. And a lot of it coming from the side. We watched the weather channel yesterday and saw that the winds are going to be pretty brutal in this part of the country for a few days. They were right. But, we’re pretty lucky because today’s hottest temperature was only 72 degrees and we
DAY 6 – Umatilla OR to somewhere east of Walla Walla WA – 66 miles Read More »
