Weather:
Clear and a cold 40 degrees at start.
Warmed up quickly by first stop. People were stripping off outerwear.
Clear all day with a high in the mid 80's
and blustery wind shifting from tail wind to crosswind to headwind.
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Points of Interest:
A very large, shinny (dead) rattlesnake
was sited by several riders.
We passed an observatory that consisted
of many large satellite dishes to detect radio waves from distant
objects in space. The satellite dishes are 100 feet tall and
weigh 200 tons. They can detect activity 60 million quadrillion
miles away.
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Highlights:
The scenery was peaceful and quiet - mostly
open plains with distant mountains. You might expect Hoss and
Little Joe to ride up at any moment! Lots of pickup trucks!
We saw very few people and rode through
a couple of very tiny, "one horse" towns. The Mayor
of one of the towns came out to chat with us.
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People We Rode With:
Bruce and Brian rode together in the morning
up until lunch with Ned, Rich, Brian U. and a brief stretch with
Lon.
After lunch Bruce rode partly solo and
partly with Ned.
Brian rode solo mostly with a brief stretch
with Brian U.
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Comments/Quotes:
The altitude really became apparent -
it felt like we did enough breathing for 300 miles!
One stretch of Route 60 was perfectly
straight for 25 miles!
As for the quality of our website, "What
we lack in razzle dazzle, we make up for with solid journalism."
As an observation about our Swiss riders,
"They are dependable and never lose time".
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