Thursday 2/06/05
The end of the penultimate map today and the beginning of the last one. Wooohooo!!!!! Only 308 miles left and we can take our sweet time about it too. We have 8 days to do it in, great!We have only one major climb left in the whole trip. That is the day after tomorrow. Carson pass will take us from 4000 to 8000ft then drop us down an 80 mile downhill to sea level and California proper. Nice. Only a 60 mile day today. Most of it flat. It was however a bit cold and windy. It started raining as we were having dinner so we decided on getting a motel, once a week is all good. Alex was feeling still a bit queasy after the awful Mexican so it was a good idea.
Cycled past the 1000ft sand mountain which was crawling with dune buggies, cool:
Salt flats! 30 miles of them and the wind and dust was a killer:
Dust Devils swarmed all over the desert landscape and threatened to kill us a few times. only got hit by a couple though after seeing hundreds all day:
posted by Mark Amos & Alexander Freeman @ 11:18 AM
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7 Comments:
Hi Guys,
glad to see that your epic journey is going well and that you are within reaching distance of your goal! All I can say is keep up the good work and when your back over here you'll have to come down and tell me about your adventures. I can read between the lines but I reckon after a few beers you'll have to tell me the full story! Good luck with the rest of your trip and see ya soon!
Take it easy....
Keep going boys!
Nearly there now!
Some amazing pictures of the desert you've got. Must be really weird riding through nothing for miles on end.
Keep up the good work and see you soon.
Miller
California...... time to stop by the O.C. and see.....
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Just started downloading your mp3's, i'll send them on soon.
Hi, boys
Bongo losing at poker, thats a first! Amos did u met jacky in the casino? when you get to san fran you've got to take a hobo out to dinner, just hope he's not nuts like the one me and dave took out. Have you been keeping the redneck diary?
anyway back to the callcentre, what fun!
Joe
Your blogsite is most excellent! What fun it was listening to your stories and cycling advice at the KOA in Ely on Memorial Day weekend. So many of your pictures look similar to the sights we passed as well! Best of fun in California! Well done, lads!
Becky and John Hamilton
How goes it..hope you'se both chilling to the max.
Glade fest is the weekend of July 15 - 17th (6 weeks from this weekend), Alex I'll save you the ticket as I know you would be doing something very, very important to pass up the opportunity to see THE DON that is Richard James,
my email: razorruck@hotmail.com
If you get the chance, watch Sin City (SICK), & is Batman out over there yet?
In a bit, Nil.
Alright boys, good luck for the final haul, you've both done superb!
Im all finished at uni now and officially unemployed - will worry bout it in a couple of weeks, ive got some serious drinking to be done for now! basement jaxx have replaced kylie at glasto, its just not the same!!!
Enjoy your last couple of weeks and have a great time partying / chillin etc in San Fran,
see you soon, i look forward to all your stories
briggs
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