Category Archives: USA Tours

Ah what a difference a day makes! Fresh legs, cross to tail wind. Very light traffic, beautiful wide open landscape. Quiet quiet quiet. We had a long way to ride today so we had a pretty early start and rode while the sun was rising. Started with the full cold weather gear but quickly startedContinue reading “Day 22. Day 3 Texas 74 mi. Ais 6:37. 7:45-5pm Van Horn to Marfa”

Easterly winds for 69 miles. Fort Hancock to Van Horn. Taking the advice of Tyler, an El Paso cyclist, we rode the interstate I-10 all day. It started out very pleasant with a very smooth shoulder, albeit noisy, for 20 miles. Then we smartened up and used ear plugs. That made the interstate noise lessContinue reading “Day 21. Day 2 Texas. 69 miles Day 22. Day 3 Texas. Rest day”

How many days will it take to get across the largest state in the USA? We shall see. If today is any indication it will take almost a month. Today’s ride from El Paso to Fort Hancock was 46 miles, really flat. I don’t think I’ve ever ridden 43 miles that are this flat. IContinue reading “Day 20. Day 1 Texas. Miles and miles….”

We have our routine, great exercise, scenery, nice and friendly people giving us a thumbs up, a smile and encouragement. All this fun makes watching the pandemic expand seem like it’s happening somewhere else, doesn’t pertain to us. I suspect a lot of people still feel that way because no one close to them hasContinue reading “Cycling through Crisis, week 3”

So it begins….miles and miles of Texas. We rode 67 miles today through two cities and two universities. Las Cruces (NMSU) and El Paso (UTEP). It was a beautiful flat easy ride south out of Las Cruces through groves of Pecan trees. There’s a small farming town about every 5-8 miles along the Rio Grande.Continue reading “Day 19. Made it to El Paso Texas”

We left Hillsboro with a good early start. Breakfast of Starbucks instant coffee( it’s good) and PopTarts (gift from ACA friends). I haven’t had a pop tart since I was a kid but they’re loaded with calories so a pretty good choice for quick exit. Great little RV camp spot with no street lights soContinue reading “Day 18. Hillsboro to ?? Las Cruces”

So…today we conquered our biggest climb of the entire ride. It was not simple. In 40 miles we climb 4800ft to the top of Emory Pass. Took the better part of the day. Switch backs the last 2 miles. 16mile romp down the other side to a little town Hillsboro. There isn’t much here asContinue reading “Day 17. Biggest climb of the ride”

46 mi. Elev climb 3772ft. Ais 4:50. Those are the stats today. I (Suzy) personally had a really good ride today. Yesterday I talked about the “trifecta” and today all those stars were aligned. We had a really long steady climb and then a series of sawtooth ups and downs. To anyone who has riddenContinue reading “Day 16. Lordsburg to Silver City”

Late start because it was pretty chilly this morning when we woke up. On top of that the time zone changed to Mountain DST so we lost an hour. We entered New Mexico and I have to say the shoulder and highway were really smooth. Traffic was light so it was an enjoyable ride toContinue reading “Day 15. 37 mi. We can ride but we can’t hide”

One of the hardest days. We were ambitious and thought we’d make it to Lordsburg (77mi) but that idea quickly diminished as we crawled very slowly up, up, up out of the Gila River Valley. Very light traffic, left all the mining trucks about 7 miles out of Safford and as soon as we droppedContinue reading “Day 14. 40 mi. 4 hrs. Safford to Duncan AZ”