Ride Against Hunger

Day 5: Kirkwood Inn to Silver Springs, NV

Word of the Day: WIND

Today we rode 94 miles. That may sound like a lot to you. It does to me. But here's the deal. We started at Kirkwood Inn, a beautiful ski resort located up CA 88. We rode to the top of Carson Pass, about seven miles, and then started down the other side of the Sierra...and kept riding down hill for the next 40 miles into Carson City, NV. Not only that, we had a very strong wind directly at our backs that blew us all the way to our campsite located at Lahontan Reservoir. It was the easiest 94 miles any of us had ever done...and we were grateful after a very difficult day yesterday.

We are now into the second state of our cross country venture. When we saw the big "Welcome to Nevada" sign we let out a yell. Somehow the fact that we are in another state makes the trip seem more real...like we are really on our way. Now we will work our way across Nevada's Loneliest Highway in America (Route 50). It will be very different terrain than we have seen in California, but we look forward to experiencing the beauty of Nevada.

Some of you have been asking to see a map showing where we are stopping. Joe Ossmann's brother did a google map showing our various destinations. If you would like to take a look here are the sites:

In case anyone's interested, I typed Joe's itinerary into Google Maps. It only takes 25 destinations at a time, so there are three:

http://tinyurl.com/JoesBikeTrip1

http://tinyurl.com/JoesBikeTrip2

http://tinyurl.com/JoesBikeTrip3