Cranking out the miles today, we joined back up with the great divide mountain bike route. In total we did about 150miles on Route 66. It was a cool experience to see some of New Mexico Route 66. Today was one of the few days we had a tail wind. We got on the road by 845 this morning an kicked ass. The first 30miles we cranked out in about 2.5hrs after that we got a head wind an took about a hour lunch an had to stop to get groceries for the next 6 days or so.
The next section is passing through Pie town then to Silver City in total about 235miles. Todays ride was another change in terrain we merged into a more sandy area as well as went through areas with a few rock formation an large cliff walls that stretched for huge distances. Once outside of Grants the lava flow areas started to appear which are neat to see. The rocks are charcoal black an protrude out of the ground at all spratic of angles.
When we were on route to the grocery store I hoped on a bike path. It was a pretty sweet path for about 5 minutes. I was crossing over a bridge an wabaammmmmm!!! rattle snake from the edged snaps out at me on my bike as I passed without seeing him.
Luckly I was not clipped in an have superpower reflexes he didnt get me. But did get the heart pumping a bit after. Once calmed I got some cool pics of him. Kind of a little guy but enough to do some damage if he got you.
The sunset was amazing tonight with a spectrum of colors, yellow,orange, pinks, and purples. The last 10 miles we got to enjoy it as we entered into the El Malpais National Monument. I hiked this section back in 2014 an remember amazing sunrises an sunsets here in the desert.
A great an long day it was challenging at times with the wind. Wind ia one of the more physical challenges makeing riding much harder. The next few daysnhave high winds forcasted so hopefully there wrong, or if anything they have the direction of it wrong an it will be coming from the north.
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