Last night before hitting the hay, Jake noticed he had a flat. But he was wrong, he had two flats. He fixed both. In the morning one was flat again so he changed that one again. Then when loading his bike the tube blew out. That's 4 flats in zero miles - beat that. About 45 miles into our ride he had another blow out. That is five flats on 2 tires in 45 miles. This after going for 13 days with only 3 flats up until today. Luckily we made it to John's (a brother of Jake's cousins wife) in Las Cruces without another flat. Had we had a blow out we would have been in trouble as Jake had used the last of the tubes.
We woke this AM to another very cold Morning and had 15 mile head winds all day. Not a good day on the bike. Very cold and no where to stop for anything the whole way. We were prepaired with peanut butter and Nutrigrain bars, but a cup of coffee or real breakfast out of the cold would have been nice. We were doing 9-10 miles per hour on flats and downhills. Very exhausting and disappointing; almost 6 hours on the bike for only 55 miles. The effort should have yeided 100 miles+.
I'll let Jake write about some of the events in the RV park. Overall real nice people. If you ever get a chance to visit Deming, just keep going.
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