Monday 30/05/05

83 miles to Eureka today. More down, than up, or so the map says. It didn't turn out that way though, it was still a killer. Four summits today with again nothing in between, pure pain.
There is one upside to this past few days in Nevada. We thought it was going to be a real harsh dessert environment, you know really hot, dry and sandy, however it has actually been fairly mild. In fact cycling out of Ely today was really painfully cold. I failed to mention also that the first day over the Nevada border we got slightly rained on and missed a cloud burst by just a couple of miles. We are again thanking our lucky stars we started this ride fairly early.
We stayed in an RV park which cost only $5 and ate a really nice meal at the local diner. Alex even managed to beat Mark at pool too, which hasn't happened in about 20 games, bar Mark potting the black or the white on the last shot.