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Unusual evening nights sleep at our campsite on Lake Pleasant. I heard clomping outside my tent. It was a beautiful nearly full moon night so I had the tent fly open wide. When I looked out I saw two wild burros standing just along our campsite. Apparently this area is famous for them. Later inContinue reading “Day 9. Taking a diagonal across greater Phoenix 68 miles”

Funny how 60 miles can change from day to day and road to road. Nice stay at our City park in Aguila. Cold morning so we didn’t rush to get started. Went back to the Coyote Den for breakfast since they gave us a free meal last night. Same daughter server, young teenager. She’s notContinue reading “Day 8. 65 mi. Some downhill”

Quartzite to Aguila Ride…eat…sleep repeat. Lots of eat and ride My body is not quite ready for multiple days of 60 mi yet. It seems my butt hurts or my carpal tunnel on my right hand is numbing or the knife is in my shoulder blade. It alternates but mostly it’s the saddle. However, theContinue reading “Day 7. 66 mi. Ais 6:10”

Good arrival with all bikes intact , put them together and test rode them. First day in San Diego was challenging with traffic, detours, and climbing, but got it done though short of target. Next day had me thinking a lot of questions, did I choose the wrong bike or just haven’t ridden it enoughContinue reading “First Week”

To everyone that I horrified yesterday today was calm and quiet! Easy morning Rise and shine on the banks of the Colorado. Neighbors camping for the winter ( they move every 14 days back and forth) were from BC,Canada. So you know they were Canadian friendly😊. One guy told us a back way to BlytheContinue reading “Day 6. 47 mi. ais 4:29. Palo Verde CA to Quartzite AZ”

Longest day in the saddle. 6:23. Brawley to Palo Verde CA Started out pretty simple rolling thru the Imperial Valley farmland. Good shoulder, some truck traffic. After about 15 miles we climbed out of the valley and into the desert To the left we’re the chocolate Mtns and straight ahead was the Imperial Sand DuneContinue reading “Day 5. 67 mi. 2000 ft climb. Long, scary day”

Taking Dave’s advice ( see Dave day 2) we took the Interstate 8 for 10 miles to cutoff about 12 miles. It was a rough bumpy shoulder, similar to Montana frost heaves. A butt killer for sure. A border agent helicopter was flying low along both sides of the interstate for several miles. Back andContinue reading “Day 4. The Imperial Valley ride”

Today was a really good day. I hope/wish they will all be like today. But…it’s not my first bike ride! Curt had a really good day so we are thrilled! He had to walk a few steep sections but he was thrilled and we didn’t see him until lunch break. He is encouraged that hisContinue reading “Day 3 Up, down, up, down, up, down, down, down”

26.8 mi. 3926 elevation gain. AIS (ass in seat) 4:07 Predominantly all climbing today. Weather was cooler, not sunny. Good for climbing really. Occasionally raining but we lucked out and were eating lunch at Albertsons so we missed most of it. It was a rain jacket off and on type of day. Off for climbingContinue reading “All uphill”

32 mi. San Diego to Lakeside CA We officially started riding today. The start point on the Pacific Ocean at Ocean Beach, San Diego. But first we had to ride from our hotel to the beach. Within the first 4-5 blocks we had an extremely steep hill to get up and over. I would haveContinue reading “No more planning. Today we ride!”