I last left with word of our friend Miranda. She broke her collar bone in 4 places. She flew back home to New York and had surgery to put a plate in/on/around the bone. I don't know what it was but I do know that she is doing a lot better. In-fact, we will be picking her up in Reno tomorrow or the next day and she will be riding in the SAG van. She then plans to ride across the Golden Gate with us. She is having an amazing recovery and we are all excited that she is coming back. She did leave us with a friend that we have all been carrying around. His name, "No Flats".
We had another build day in Moab. We build with an organization that builds adobe houses. We learned more about the project and helped rebuild a wall with adobe. It was a cool way to actually see what it was like to build with natural earth materials. It was also a little messy. There was mud everywhere. Afterward I went to the hospital with Dennis to hang out with Miranda before she left for New York.
The next morning we rode to Green River. A very small community that was slowly dwindling because a freeway was built to by-pass the town. They are slowly starting to grow again. We met some very nice people that gave us free access to their candy stash. Yumm... It was also a 57 mile day so the majority of us got in before 11:30 in the morning.
We then had a 92 mile ride to Capital Reef National Park where we got to camp. There was an amazing sunrise that morning. There really wasn't anything that exciting to the ride. The terrain was flat and full of little bushes. I think you will find most of Utah like this.
From Capital Reef we rode 80 miles to Otter Creek State Park. This was a little harder because the first 40 miles where nothing but uphill. Not so much fun to stat at 6 in the morn. The downhill was nice for the first half but the on the second half we had a really nice headwind. It took us a little while to get there. This was our second day of camping but this host had some of the coolest camp showers ever. AND THEY WERE WARM!!!!
On the 31st I actually got really sick. I think it was from the dinner the previous night. But I rode the van for about half the day. Lets just say that having dinner and breakfast come up in the first mile of the ride isn't a good thing. I rode in the van till mile 70. From there I got to ride the last 30 miles with a group into Milford where we got to stay in a hotel. It was nice because it was only Sean and I in a room. All the other rooms basically had 4 people to them.
The next day we rode into Baker, NEVADA!!!! This was also a small town. There was one guy who owned a restaurant, hotel, and the only gas station. He was really nice and gave us a ton of bread for lunch the next morning. There was also a sweet lady that made us the best meatloaf I have ever had. I wish I had the recipe. We stayed in the gym of an old elementary school.
From Baker we went to Ely, to Eureka, to Austin. These towns were all basically the same. To me they were just some random town in the middle of nowhere. They all had populations of less than 5000. They are old mining towns from the 19 & 20th centuries that have sense been abandoned. They were all great hosts and were really happy we got to stay in the towns. Through this we have found that Nevada is not flat. There are mountains then valleys. We were told that we would overall be going over 12 mountain passes while on highway 50.
Today we rode 110 miles into Fallon. It was a nice ride that took about 8 hours to do. We are staying at the Methodist Church where we get to sleep in the dining hall. The church cooked us a great BBQ dinner. It was so good; especially sense we have had cold pasta and PP&J for the past week. Tomorrow we ride into Reno where we have our final build day.
I will be riding through Downtown Placerville on Sunday. I just might see some of you there at the Craft Fair. You should also go to Tortilla Flats for Lunch. My sis is working there and it's her birthday, so stop by and say hi. I will be there...
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