We're back on the bike after two days of hurricane strength wind. We got up at 5:30, ate our oatmeal and were on the road as light barely broke the dawn. We all have lights on the bikes so are allowed on the road before daylight. It was quite cool and although still windy, nothing like yesterday. We had a couple of long mountains to climb almost immediately but then heading toward El Paso the terrain again lost altitude. That means that we'll have that same climb plus more when we leave on Saturday. At that time we will finally leave Texas too!
The winds picked up today to 38 mph hour but we were able to get to Fort Hancock. It was a hard 69 mile ride. We met a few cyclists on the road today, all of them going east. The strong winds are in their favor but they too said they had to get off the road yesterday. They couldn't control the bikes and were blinded by blowing sand.
More winds are predicted on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. hope they are not as bad.
We are now on Mountain Time. That means a 2 hour difference from Michigan time.
The mountains were beautiful against the blue skies today. I'll try to post some pictures on Facebook but Verizon service is very poor here.
Fort Hancock sounds like a decent size town but don't be fooled! It too is a dead, nothing here place. One restaurant in town with the only vegetarian choice being retried beans, again!
Had some when we got in to town and will have to have them again when we walk over for supper in a few minutes. I'm so hungry for fresh fruit and vegetables. No wonder obesity is such a problem with poor people. They don't even have fresh stuff in their stores or restaurants.
Off for some retried beans!
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