Tuesday, June 1, 2010
After six days on the road, we have begun to establish a daily routine. Here's what a day looks like for us. We get up at 5 (or s0), certainly by 5:30 a.m. Joe and I dress quietly saying "excuse me" and "sorry" as we slide by each other in our 25 foot motor home. Joe cooks his breakfast over the stove while I micro-wave my Oatmeal. By the time we eat breakfast, Cindy (my wife) and Kathy (Joe's wife), are beginning to stir.
As soon as breakfast is completed we load our bikes for the day's ride. We carry lots of water, tools, extra tires, tubes, sun screen our lunches, and other miscellaneous items. While this will probably end soon, the women do come out and take pictures of us as we leave the site. Makes us riders feel so important!!!
From then on until the end of the day's ride, it is simply grind out the miles. Today we did 83 miles and today's ride was as hard as yesterday's ride was easy. The wind that blew us across the NV yesterday was in our face today and made the miles much more difficult. We went through Fallon, NV this morning and learned that the movie TOP GUN was about the base located near this town. As we rode out across the high desert, we watched fighter jets race across the skies. I told Joe and Church that it seemed like we were in the middle of their play-ground.
Nevada is shaped like a wash board with peaks and valleys all across the state. Today we went over three "passes", and tomorrow we will ride over several more on our way to Austin. We arrived in Middlegate Station at around 3 pm. After sitting for a few minutes we take showers, prepare dinner, and enjoy dinner with good friends, discussing the day's happenings. After cleaning up, we all sit down to do our daily blogs. Last night four of us sat at the table each with our lap-tops before us. Is something wrong with that picture.
We then go to be and get ready to repeat these basic steps the following day
That with a few variations is what we do each day...our daily routine!
The other riders are doing their own blogs too? What are the links?
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