Friday 27/5/05

Ouch, what a bad day, the begining of a weeks stretch of towns over 80 miles apart with nothing in between except big mountain passes. Today we had to do three passes two 1500ft climbs and one 1000ft covering 87 miles.
(This photo sums up the roads and terrain for most of our trip through nevada - long roads over mountain ridges and across huge basins. Its hard when you can see for about 30miles, looking at the same point for 2 hours and peddling and getting no closer.)
It took us along time, we started about 8.00am and arrived after 5.00pm to the Border Inn 'casino' just over the boarder in Nevada and were dissappointed. As I said we were going to take a day off here but there was seriously nothing worth doing. The word casino can mean anything from a few slot machines to the Vegas Golden Nugget, unfortunately this wasn't the latter. The upside though was we could pitch a tent for free in the surrounding desert and just had to pay for showers. They also had a Bar/restaurant open 24hrs so we could eat a nice meal and pick up lunch for the next day where we would be heading to a town called Ely which actually is a fairly significantly sized town.

Heres a good time to tell you about the book I am reading at the moment. Its called Desperation by Steven King and is based on the stretch of Route 50 which goes through Nevada, the self same road we will be travelling on for over a week. Heres the Blurb:
'There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the lonliest place on Earth. It's known as Desperation, Nevada. Its not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die. Let the battle against evil begin. Welcome to..... DESPERATION.'
Should I be reading this now? I don't know if its my best idea ever!