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Tuesday April 8, 2008, 112 miles (180 km) - Total so far: 1,238 miles (1,992 km)
Today was a pretty long day, with very few things happening and not a lot of variety in the scenery department. I left about 9:15am and rode 112 miles to Sanderson, TX, arriving around 6:00pm. I stopped a few times today at little roadside picnic shelters which was nice. There were only two small towns through the 112 miles, and nothing else inbetween. The maps warn to carry extra food and water because it is so remote. I did, and it was no big deal. The headwind was pretty bad today, but again, I just put on some tunes and went into it. In the morning I passed a couple wild turkeys and got their photo, which was cool.
At dinner tonight, the waitress was obviously having some kind of altercation with the owner all night, and she was stomping around, cussing and generally being difficult. She did give me my food half-off though because she said it wasn't enough for me. I didn't say anything other than, "ok, sure thing!" and had a full meal for $6. Not bad!
I'm staying at the Desert Air Motel and I'm very happy with the place. for $32, it's clean and standard, and, the owner lady did a load of laundry for me, let me use her computer, gave me a tube of avon face lotion since it ws so dry, and told me all about the area. What a deal!
Not much else really, it was totally just a riding day with nothing else! Hopefully tomorrow something crazy happens. Today I was trying to think of what could happen in west texas to make it interesting while I was riding through, and came up with a few things.. meteor crashing near the road, UFO beaming up a herd of cows, someone not waving to me (everyone waves at me out here now, which is cool, but it would be interesting if they didn't, because now it's standard procedure).. or maybe a flock of vultures carrying me away. Those things were everywhere today, feasting on all sorts of roadkill and dead cattle on ranch land.
Since I have a real computer here, I'll add some photos.. There's a few cool ones! (see next post)
Also, Added another Youtube Video!! Cool 30mph downhill. I know, it looks slow, but remember this is a bike, not a car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mV_VxC-c
At dinner tonight, the waitress was obviously having some kind of altercation with the owner all night, and she was stomping around, cussing and generally being difficult. She did give me my food half-off though because she said it wasn't enough for me. I didn't say anything other than, "ok, sure thing!" and had a full meal for $6. Not bad!
I'm staying at the Desert Air Motel and I'm very happy with the place. for $32, it's clean and standard, and, the owner lady did a load of laundry for me, let me use her computer, gave me a tube of avon face lotion since it ws so dry, and told me all about the area. What a deal!
Not much else really, it was totally just a riding day with nothing else! Hopefully tomorrow something crazy happens. Today I was trying to think of what could happen in west texas to make it interesting while I was riding through, and came up with a few things.. meteor crashing near the road, UFO beaming up a herd of cows, someone not waving to me (everyone waves at me out here now, which is cool, but it would be interesting if they didn't, because now it's standard procedure).. or maybe a flock of vultures carrying me away. Those things were everywhere today, feasting on all sorts of roadkill and dead cattle on ranch land.
Since I have a real computer here, I'll add some photos.. There's a few cool ones! (see next post)
Also, Added another Youtube Video!! Cool 30mph downhill. I know, it looks slow, but remember this is a bike, not a car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mV_VxC-c
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