A Day of Rest??
A Day of Rest??
- 6:00 Breakfast.
- Back to the room by 6:25.
- Check bike tire pressure and inspect tires
for foreign debris.
- 6:45 ready to depart.
- 6:50 daily route rap session: Paula reviews the day’s route, SAG stops,
critical points, and key points of interest.
- Tell bike mechanic of any issues with bikes needing repair or adjustment.
- 5:00 dinner.
- Check the tomorrow's weather forecast to began selection of appropriate clothes.
- Briefly check Internet for national and
international news.
Tuesday 4th June, 2019
Day 25
Location:
Junction City, KS
3rd
of 5 rest days
For a
much needed day of rest, the list of necessary chores occupied most of the
time. Laundry to do, bike cleaning and
lubrication of the chain, shopping for personal supplies, download the biking
maps and directions to the Garmin GPS systems for the next 7 days, 2 days worth
of blog updates, a few phone calls, work emails and a chance to sleep until
6:30 AM.
Since our
last day in Santa Fe I have biked 698 miles (average 78 miles per day) during
the past 9 days, many of those miles with a headwind, reached the highest
elevation of the tour (7,500 ft), biked 8 torturous miles on a milled highway,
and climbed a cumulative 15,500 vertical feet.
No wonder we are exhausted.
Crossroads support vehicles.
Bike cleaning station. CrossRoads provides at the necessary supplies.
On a different note, time is passing much too quickly,
in part, because our activities have us so fully engaged for the entire day.
We were warned that the trip would pass much
too quickly, and now we must agree. We
are into our 4th week (22 biking days and 3 rest days) and
tomorrow is the halfway point in terms of distance. Seems like we
just started 1 week ago.
We have NOT watched TV once during the entire
trip. As strange as that seems, we are
always rushing in the morning to be fully packed and really to depart at 6:45
and then after dinner I am rushing to complete the blog and get to bed ideally
by 8:00 – 8:30, but it is always 9:30 – 10:00 PM.
After the first week we settled into an
efficient and consistence routine, as we have little opportunity for a down
time.
Our Daily Routine
- Up at 4:40 AM and out of the bathroom by 5:00
when Judi gets up.
- Check daily weather forecast so that we
wear the appropriate clothes and pack rainwear, if needed.
- Briefly check Internet for national and
international news.
- Briefly check emails (but rarely reply as
blog is meant to keep family and friends informed).
- Wash and fill water bottles with electrolytes
and protein drink mixes.
- Apply sunscreen and butt butter.
- Place daily items in bike packs and bring bikes to
hotel lobby.
- Finish packing our 4 yellow duffel bags.
- Checkout.
- 7:00 depart.
- 2:00 – 4:00 PM typical arrival at destination hotel.
- Tell bike mechanic of any issues with bikes needing repair or adjustment.
- Check-in, unpack and shower.
- Make or buy post-recovery energy drinks.
- Hand wash daily biking clothes in bathroom sink.
- Wash water bottles.
- 6:30 or so, return to room.
- Finish tasks not completed before dinner.
- Review next day route sheet.
- About 7:30- 8:00 start blog. Typically takes 1 ½ hours:
- gather appropriate
information,
- review daily photos
from Judi and my smart phones,
- download selected
photos to laptop and then upload to blog site,
- write the daily blog,
which is basically a raw dump of my reflections on the day,
- given time
constraints, little effort is made to edit or proofread.
- Complete blog and get to bed: ideally by 8:00 – 8:30, but it is always 9:30
– 10:00 PM.
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