Let's see... I'm pretty tired right now because we just had a 100 mile day. And it was hot, hot, hot. But boy do I have some fun things for you readers.
Right now I'm in a church in Lamar, CO. We crossed into Mountain Standard Time. Woah. We've had a long past couple days of riding with no breaks, but man, we are STRONG! It was 98 miles on one road. Everyone's killing the road, booking it to the west coast. I think today some of the riders were pacelining at 30MPH on the way to the first lunch stop (40 miles). Maybe an exageration, but actually not, I think its true. We are killing it. We ate lunch in a graveyard today. Concidence? I think not.
Tomorrow is a "break" day (80 miles, hardly) and then after that we bike 124 miles to Colorado Springs baby. And then a build day and a rest day. The central US route will be in Denver and MAYBE we will get to meet them. I think a Bike and Build mixer is in store. How cool would that be? I'd be really curious to see how other groups on this trip are and share all the crazy stories we have and our experiences. This is such a unique trip... an experience... a memory to last forever. Damn its cool. Never in my short span of life have I ever spent everyday doing something and constantly thinking about how shocking, amazing, and awesome it is. Everyday is like the the drive to the first day of college, or the day before summer starts, or even the day before I came on this trip and meet these people. Ya dig? I am constantly reinvigorated.
Last time I blogged was the morning of the day we had a scavenger hunt. It was an easier day (60 miles, haha), so there was a list compiled of things to do. It was a looooong day because we took a bunch of detours. My group was outside for about 5 hours and only went about 15 miles. The reason was that one of our scavenger hunt items was to milk a cow. Not so easy, as you can imagine. After visiting several farms, we were directed to a dairy farm. We found it, but it was on a gravel road that took about 10 miles to get there. Tough riding, but totally worth it. It was just about the most ridiculous thing I've done so far while riding. Thousands of cows - the smelliest place you can imagine - all riding the carousel of milking and waiting for a chain to hit their heads so they get off the carousel. Ben was the brave one and decided to milk a cow (only after being really afraid of getting kicked in the face by the cow).
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He also took a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u41FT_kHbN0
And here we are being given a tour of dairy farm, by the lovely 11 days due Daisy. Like I said, ridiculous.
All together, all our different groups were able to do things such as solicit kisses from strangers, get handcuffed (that was me), make trades with locals, go on a date with a grandmother, find a bullwhip, and carry part of a kids playhouse 6 miles on our bike (go Ginger go).
Two good videos.. these are keepers:
When we were at the University of Ozarks, (we stayed in a dorm), we were interviewed and taped. They got us after we did a century and even got some footage of us jumping in the fountain we weren't suppposed to (lifes too short, right?). They did a short video of us. Its cool and I say a little something in it as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Also notable, and HILARIOUS. When we were biking to Little Rock, AR (back in the day).. several of us had a strange encounter with a man on the road who drove up beside us and started filming us while talking to us. He sounded very southern and was asking a lot of questions and we had no idea what to think. Upon further inspection, we noticed a baby deer nibbling on his ear in his lap. what? Exactly. He turned out to be really cool and offered accomodations to us next year. Flathead2020, this goes out to you. Here is the video of us and his deer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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