Rusty Crank Coast to Coast Bicycle Tour across the USA on the ACA TransAM Route

TransAm Day #29 June 23, 2018 Eads, CO - Ordway, CO 65 Miles Ride Time 5:21 Hours Tour Total  Miles 2213 details at: https://cyclemeter.com/4b2d99e24f1383f2/Cycle-20180623-0723-62155 I slept great last night at the Cobblestone Inn after fourteen thousand beers. I only wish that Steve and Don hadn’t gotten up so early. Early meaning 6am mountain time which I guess was 7am central, and far from the 3:30am regimen. Still, I could have used more sleep. I stayed up really late with Don drinking beer and talking about old times. He’s got a really sharp memory and is able to remember the details of a lot of old stories, some of which it'd be better if he forgot. The three hungover boys had breakfast in the hotel lobby. I made myself a waffle. Afterwards we said our goodbyes and Steve and I were on the road. It felt appropriate to be wearing my Bouré cycling sweater from Durango Colorado. I bought it in 2009 to console myself after my father died. This is it’s fir...

TransAm Day #30 June 24, 2018 Ordway, CO - Pueblo, CO 51 Miles Ride Time 3:31 Hours Tour Total  Miles 2264 details at: https://cyclemeter.com/4b2d99e24f1383f2/Cycle-20180624-0657-57117 Steve and I went to the bar in Ordway last evening which was a genuine western saloon. The bartender reminded me of the cowboy in ‘The Big Lebowski’. The barstools were made out of 2 x 4’s and looked like squat lifeguard chairs. We asked the bartender if we could bring our bikes into the bar to weather out the storm. We leaned them against the wall near the pool table. He said that it wouldn’t rain and that they only got wind around here. Sure enough he was right. It never rained, but boy was it windy- all night long. There were water fountains for kids to play in at the park, but no showers or sinks to wash my clothes. I didn’t bathe, do laundry, or even change my outfit. We camped under the pavilion in the city park, where I strung up my hammock. It was extremely windy, and th...