We woke up feeling a little rough. Maybe it was the bed or maybe all this caught up with us. I had a pretty sore throat, probably from the rain and cold. We enjoyed the hotel breakfast and left right around check-out time.
The day was really uneventful. We rode through the valley until we hit plains. Thankfully the mountain the day before was the only one, so it was warm as we rode; beautiful weather actually for the first little bit. The highlight of our trip came just as we left the valleys. We were starting to get hungry and it was close to lunch. (well probably a few hours after lunch because we are always a few hours behind). We started to look around for restaurants and decided against this one:
Yep. I think that's supposed to be an x. It doesn't look like an x. At the next stoplight a Colorado parks and game officer rolled down his window and asked if we had just taken a picture of that sign and then told us how it was a really good restaurant but as soon as they put that sign up hardly anyone goes there anymore. We were all laughing pretty hard.
We ended up eating McDs for lunch and stopped once more for a heat and gas break. When we got back on the road it was windy, about 15-20 mph according to our weather app. It really beats you up and takes it outta ya. And it was downright hot, in the mid-90s. We'd get some relief driving past fields that had been well watered. The wind would take the coolness off the field and blow it our way so it felt a lot like AC. But as soon as the plot ended it was hot again.
We eventually made it to Mic and Carol's again. It was so good to see welcoming, familiar faces (and the dog, Jess). We had a 'farm dinner,' as Carol put it, of corn, mashed potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, biscuits, and fried chicken. In the words of Mr. Food, ooh it was so good. That's a bikers kind of meal. We talked for a while and then watched the RNC on TV. It was the first time we'd really watched TV in the last 30 days. The last time we were here I remember the moon was near full and very beautiful on the open fields. It felt like we had been there just the week before but I noticed the moon was near full again, reminding me of how long it had actually been. We took our shower and caught up on the blog before we went to bed.
Today we traveled 299.7 miles for a total of 9323.3 miles across America.
The day was really uneventful. We rode through the valley until we hit plains. Thankfully the mountain the day before was the only one, so it was warm as we rode; beautiful weather actually for the first little bit. The highlight of our trip came just as we left the valleys. We were starting to get hungry and it was close to lunch. (well probably a few hours after lunch because we are always a few hours behind). We started to look around for restaurants and decided against this one:
Yep. I think that's supposed to be an x. It doesn't look like an x. At the next stoplight a Colorado parks and game officer rolled down his window and asked if we had just taken a picture of that sign and then told us how it was a really good restaurant but as soon as they put that sign up hardly anyone goes there anymore. We were all laughing pretty hard.
We ended up eating McDs for lunch and stopped once more for a heat and gas break. When we got back on the road it was windy, about 15-20 mph according to our weather app. It really beats you up and takes it outta ya. And it was downright hot, in the mid-90s. We'd get some relief driving past fields that had been well watered. The wind would take the coolness off the field and blow it our way so it felt a lot like AC. But as soon as the plot ended it was hot again.
We eventually made it to Mic and Carol's again. It was so good to see welcoming, familiar faces (and the dog, Jess). We had a 'farm dinner,' as Carol put it, of corn, mashed potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, biscuits, and fried chicken. In the words of Mr. Food, ooh it was so good. That's a bikers kind of meal. We talked for a while and then watched the RNC on TV. It was the first time we'd really watched TV in the last 30 days. The last time we were here I remember the moon was near full and very beautiful on the open fields. It felt like we had been there just the week before but I noticed the moon was near full again, reminding me of how long it had actually been. We took our shower and caught up on the blog before we went to bed.
Today we traveled 299.7 miles for a total of 9323.3 miles across America.
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