It’s Tuesday the 20th and I am now at my parents house near Wickenburg, AZ.
\nI left San Diego on Thursday, the 15th on a very beautiful, sunny day.
\nI was studying my map, and feeling unsure about which way to go, in the
\ntown of Lakeside, when up rides a guy named Doug who rode with me for
\nseveral miles through many turns and showed me the way. Somehow these
\nangel people seem to show up when you need them.
\nLeaving Lakeside, the road goes up and up and up over 4000 feet. I made it
\nabout halfway up the mountain and had to go off into the desert to set up
\ncamp. The next day I rode 46 miles of mostly uphill followed by 12 miles
\nof screaming, as fast as you can go downhill, into the desert and the town
\nof Ocotillo. In Ocotillo, I talked to Gary, who runs the trailer park, and
\nhe told me to set up my tent in his trailer park which had running water
\nbut no shower. The next day started my journey across the desert floor and
\nanother night of sleeping out in the desert (and my 3rd night without a
\nshower). I spent the next night in Blythe and the next day I rode 75 miles
\nand was setting up my tent in the desert when I checked my messages and
\ndiscovered that my parents were looking for me about forty miles back.
\nSomehow I went by them and they didn’t see me. So, here I am at my parents
\nhouse about 10 miles north of Wickenburg, resting up after riding the last
\n5 days and almost 300 miles. I am getting stronger all the time but my
\nbody still needs days off to rest.
\nI will be leaving here, for Phoenix, on Thursday 22nd and then heading
\neast. It seems that I have pretty much exhausted my supply of friends and
\nfamily so will try to just ride and ride from here with fewer stop-offs. I
\nknow that I’m getting stronger because I rode 75 miles yesterday and feel
\nfine. I feel that I can now ride farther than the daylight will allow me.
\nAdios for now; I hope everybody is well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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