The trains did not bother me last night, nor did I hear the man wandering through our campsite or the couple fighting early this morning. Exhaustion and earplugs are a great combination.
I headed out around 7 o’clock with Sue and Ann after a pitstop at the travel center. It’s a short ride today, just 50 miles, but I needed a break. We rode to “Conde’s In the middle of nowhere” gas station (that’s the real name!) for the first rest stop, but not before and encountering a dead rattlesnake in the road. I had to check out the rattles. They are as advertised. In a conversation with Ankur it appears he and Jack encountered a live one as well coiled and rattling I would’ve liked to have seen that!
The ride remained relatively easy, flat, without much wind. Ankur and I both laughed out loud as we cruise past a large anatomically correct sex toy in the shoulder of the road. We’d love to know how it got there. Lunch with spent at an underpass and we enjoyed the shade.
I felt the need for some alone time after lunch it’s generally a time when it’s hard for me to get going again and it’s not a time when I am terribly good at conversation. I set off on my own and played the alphabet but game: what can I find that starts with a? And made it all the way through to Z, deciding that Z was my Zen.
We bunked down for the night in the GILA Bend high school gym. We enjoyed 30 minutes of stretching yoga. After dinner I taught Ankur how to play gin rummy. He says I hustled him. I say it was a learning experience.
Oops. I missed this one. I love how you say 50 my miles was a short ride. I just felt good that I did 30 minutes on my stationary bike. Oh well your 50 miles equals my 30 minutes, however far that was. Debbie
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