It must have been crazy because Brad Haslam apparently went down (crashed) and dislocated his knee cap and fractured it as well. He went to the hospital and is out of the tour. I don't know the full circumstances. Brad is from the Albuquerque area and there was a picture of him in his puffed out orange jacket (but no face visible) in my blog posting yesterday.
The following picture is proof for my wife that even on rides like this, we get off our bikes and take time to view the local sites. There were tarantulas walking all over the road! We also saw lots of turtles - some alive and many smashed, and several armadillos - all smashed.
It was very humid today as well as windy like I mentioned but temperature in the high 80's or low 90's were fairly comfortable.
Tomorrow is 174 miles from Ada OK to Mena AR with 10,100 feet of climbing (a lot for this tour). 8,000 of it is packed into the last 50 miles of rollers. Should make for some good fun.
5 comments:
I went for a bike ride today, and I went 20.1 miles. It's not quite as far as your 20.6 miles...or did you really mean 206 miles? I ask because even at 20 mph, you'd be riding for 10 hours (and then some); what sane person uses his vacation time for that? :-)
Enjoy Mississippi; stop and pick some cotton if you have any free time.
Vernon,
Glad to hear you haven't crashed as of yet. Are you sure you didn't CAUSE the crash??
Keep up the good work while the rest of slave away chained to our desks!!
Vern,
Thanks for blogging ... I'm enjoying your trip notes. I plan to try it before I hit 60, but at maybe half your pace!
Roger
Vern,
I drove the road from Socorro to Springerville once, it was pretty amazing! I also drove from Socorro through the lava flow a couple times. You should have stopped and walked the trail, it is pretty cool.
Hey we are having a problem with teh new Boeing contract, do you think you could patch into a conference call while you ride Thursday?
Rolf
Yes it was 206 miles.
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