The last couple days

As Jake mentioned we had a pretty difficult day on Sunday. It is pretty intimidating to see the road you are riding disappear into the clouds, then when you get pretty far into the clouds, it just keeps disappearing a little further up and on and on. We climbed for almost 3 hours and saw very few cars. It makes you wonder why someone would bother to build this road. There were some interesting sites along the way.

Once we dropped into New Mexico we saw nothing but a couple of ranch entrences for miles. We went by one place called Mule Creek. I swear we saw one house and a post office and nothing else. If you are ever looking for a low stress job, try a post office in a one house town.

We ended at anthoer one of those RV parks were people live, not visit. It was not very nice and we both actually chose not shower in the place. This was after already not showering for 2 days because we camped at places without facilities the previous 2 nights.

We did about 35 miles today with more climbing into Silver City NM. We crossed the Continental Divide today which took us back up to 6230 ft and then had another climb before dropping into Silver City. We had the best tasting Whopper ever. It is amazing how good something can taste when you have be surviving on much less for a few days.

Looks like we will be in Texas in 2.5 days of riding.

For those wondering, the knees are holding up pretty well. I wish they were 100% as the trip would be much more enjoyable, but I'm still having a good time and seeing intersting things.

Couple items to note: Saw tumble weeds in Bylas AZ blowing ride down the middle of "town". Also in this part of of the word you can't take a step any where without shoes as some kind of sticky thing will be in your foot; usually it will be three things.

When Jake mentioned that we were not prepaired for rain, what he meant was that we left stuff out. We did realize that we would see rain sooner or later, and are prepared.

All is well. Thanks for all the thought and prayers.