Wednesday 11/5/05

We have the Rocky mountains in sight! Hallelujah!!!!
You can just about see the outline of the distant rockies on this snap:

First veiwed them just out of Haswell where we stopped for lunch yesterday riding all day towards them on, can you guess? The 96.
Arrived in Pueblo shortly after lunch. This place is the biggest town we have been to since New York, and the biggest we are going to see untill we hit cali. Its a lovely place, wouldn't mind living here. It sits in the shadows of the Rockys which is quite an amazing view to have everyday. Picked up some extra water bottles for the bikes and Alex had to get a sleeping bag liner, which unlike everything else in the states cost the same or more as it does in England (dam $60 gone) but is of extreme necessity when we are hitting mountains and desert where night time temperatures are going to frequently drop to freezing or below.
We are staying with two lovely ladies call Ruby and Mary in West Pueblo where we are writing this from now. They have been really nice to us, they have just taken us out to the biggest, best all you can eat buffet ever. I mean hundreds of different dishes including steak cooked how you want and fresh strawberries but to name a few. After the meal we drove to a lookout point to get a good view of the mountains that lay ahead and the huge reservoir at Pueblo:

Mary is at this moment doing our laundry for us (we have been stinking this past couple of days). they have offered us an absolute oasis before our long haul up the Rockys and we couldn't be more grateful.