Fun with Friends

Day 41, July 19th
Walden, C0
63 miles

We are still loving Colorful Colorado. Yesterday was quite short, but full of beautiful mountains and fresh lakes and rivers to swim in. In the morning we rode the first 20 miles with Eric, my brother's friends from Frisco, CO. He is a mountain bike racer so he pretty much kicked our butts. But it was fun to ride with someone who really knew the roads and the bike paths. It was a pleasure to ride on bike paths for a change, and away from the traffic.

We made it to Kremmling with plans of continuing on to 60/70 miles, but were persuaded to stay the night behind the fire station with some other bikers that were our age, and rainbow gathering guy who wasn't, and another austrailian chap. It was a full house with barely enough room for all the tents, especially Tim's. It was about 7 tents in total, (Maya and I are the only ones who share resources, the guys all had single tents). I guess the guys can't handle being that close to one another.

We all chipped in for a lovely burrito feast featuring beans, cheese, lettuce, avacado, onion, really expensive organic tomatoes and sour cream. We were all excited to have so many people to split the costs of a fine meal. After the meal we indulged in a little 24pack of coors lite to celebrate the rockies. We put on a little music and had a little party and got some more- this time Natty Lite which the Austrailian chap did not take a liking to at all.

We all had a great time and the short day was definitly worth it.

Thanks to our new friends we took a shortcut today that cut off about 20 miles. Today was our first day that we biked 60 miles without any services. But we planned ahead and brought plenty of water and food so that we didn't have to flag down cars and beg for water as our friends had to do yesterday. We encountered a thunder and lightning storm in the distance as we cycled into Walden. The winds got quite strong at some points and would actually push you off the road. The semi-trucks did a nice job of that as well. But we've made it here and are looking forward to an early night.

Day 40, July 18th
Kremmling, CO
47 miles


Thanks to Mary and Becky Weinstein, Michael Caputi and Emily Garmalo for their donations.