I cannot believe we’ve been at
this for 10 consecutive days! Aside from two numb fingers on my left hand and sun
poisoning covering both legs (seriously, you should see this rash…), I feel
pretty good! Exhausted, but good.
Today’s ride from Thatcher to
Lordsburg (welcome to New Mexico!) was our longest yet at 81 miles. I was
worried this ride would mimic yesterday’s, but it was quite possibly our best
day. We didn’t get the tailwind I was promised this morning until about mile
40, but when it showed up, it really showed up. I had actually written us off
when we were flagging down my mom at mile 15 – there was no way we were going
to finish the ride if we already needed to refuel. But somehow,
somewhere, things turned around and we finished really strong.
Leaving Thatcher this morning we
came across our most interesting piece of roadkill yet – a mountain lion cub.
Ok, ok, it could have been a house
cat, sure. But it would be the biggest, girthiest house cat I’ve ever seen. And
I’ve seen a lot of house cats. So we’ll call it a mountain lion cub, which is very sad, but gives me more to think about than the spiders and snakes I’ve been looking at for days. I was
disappointed not to find it pictured on the GoPro so I could investigate
further.
Lordsburg is a desolate, empty
feeling town – “like a movie set with no actors” as my mom put it. Coming into
town, I noticed signs threatening “Operation D.W.I” and how the “checkpoints
are everywhere”. If the glass bottles still littering the highway are any
indication, they need more checkpoints. Seriously, the amount of bottles along
the side of the road the last 150 miles was astounding.
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| Random shot captured on the GoPro - father and daughter hard at work |
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| Headed into Duncan, halfway into our ride |
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