Category: Travel
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Mexico : Nogales → Santa Ana : May 2016
Rodney comes back to his bicycle shop, as he said he would, not long after I finish my last post. He has a couple of younger folks trailing him in a different car. They’re from the local news station and are there to get some footage of him expressing his views on marijuana in Nogales,…
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USA : Arizona : Catalina → Nogales : May 2016
I upload my previous post from Lupe’s and then cycle the last 8 miles to Maria and Art’s place in Catilina, which, turns out is a town separate from Tuscon by about 20 miles. Their place is up a bluff in a new, nicely executed housing development where the yards sport native cactus in well…
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USA : Arizona : Tempe → Catalina : May 2016
I gotta say, Tempe is pretty great. I stayed three nights there, and while I’m still not inclined to do a play-by-play, I have to say that Veronica and Michael were both super great to get to know. I met three sets of their friends, rock climbed, yoga’d, ate my first PB&J&Fried Egg, and honestly…
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USA : Arizona : Coconino NF → Tempe : May 2016
As I take a couple tablets, along with my last gulps of water just after waking up, I jokingly think to myself that ibuprofen is like water in tablet form in the sense that, lacking sufficient water, it’s the next best thing to alleviate a dehydration induced headache. I also have a couple of granola…
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USA : AZ : Sedona → Coconino NF : May 2016
The open air sleep was pretty great, though a touch cool just before daybreak, enough so that I’d pulled the bag over my head by then. While puttering and packing, I heard what sounded distinctly like the flame thrower of a hot air balloon. But it sounded loud enough that if that was what it…
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USA : AZ : Cameron → Sedona : May 2016
I Started the day with a lovely sunrise from my roadside perch. The route into Flagstaff was only another 45 miles, but included a 2000 foot ascent over about 7 of those miles. I could see the top of the climb from its outset, and it looked deceptively close. When I got to it in…
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USA : AZ : Page → Cameron : May 2016
With the time change, and waking up when it got light out as I was sleeping in the open, sans bivvy, I was packed up and headed back into Page before 6am. Not much was open yet, so I went to Safeway, stocked up, grabbed a Starbucks latte, and dicked around, tracing my route through…
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USA : AZ : Kanab → Page : May 2016
I woke up, got up, coffee’d up, showered up, and packed up. I said goodbye to Manfred, a lumbering and somewhat strange German guy who had been nursing a debilitating leg cramp by laying prostrate in the recliner in the Cowboy Bunkhouse library for the duration of my time in Kanab, along with Joanne and…
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USA : UT : Hatch → Kanab : May 2016
After waking up in my ice-encrusted bivvy, the sun was rising but quickly being obscured by cloud cover. I melted/dried what I could, but then resigned to packing away a lot of my gear still wet. Riding on about 7 miles, I got to a Chevron which had internet, decent coffee, and Bob and Ray,…
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USA : UT : Escalante → Hatch : May 2016
Life on the bicycle is getting a touch routine. Avoidance of routine was one major thing that motivated me to quit the job and get on the bicycle, so it’s not ideal that eat/cycle/sleep is getting as familiar as it is, but I realize it’s also somewhat unavoidable. On the plus side, I’m learning to…
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