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Day 9 - Las Vegas, New Mexico
Gary's Journal - Day
9
Hello Everyone,
We arrived today in Las Vegas, NM. It was a trying day.
I know everyone thinks I (we) are always complaining, but that is what
a journal is about. Telling it like it is. We left late again
because we were up late doing admin work. We are still having trouble
with our mobile phone. The only emails we have sent were by telephone
in our motel room. We are still hoping when we get further east,
it will get better. Albuquerque is down in a valley so we had to
climb out this morning. It was a hell of a climb. I didn't
think we would make the day if it didn't level out. It finally did
for awhile. We had another first today. We had gone about thirty
miles when the road we were following turned from a paved road to a dirt
road. You can not ride street bikes on dirt roads. |
Oh my, that's gooooooood!
We had to call for the van and drive around this area until we got
to a paved road again. There were no towns near, so we had to eat
from the cooler in the van. You need more than just snacks when you
are climbing mountains but it had to do. We went on. We had
more than thirty five miles to Las Vegas and it was all up hill and very
windy, in our face. We made it and built character as well.(see attached)
We had another first. When we reached Las Vegas, we rewarded ourselves
with a stop at the ice cream shop.(see attached) The scenery alone
the way was beautiful but we are looking for a change. Something
with no mountains. We are very close to Texas. We should be
there after tomorrow. We will probably have some level ground for
awhile, we hope. Will close for now. We will not have to be
told to go to bed. Wish us well.
gary, joe, and dion
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