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ST: Day 44

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Daily Miles: 55 Total Miles: 2333 Avg: 9.9 Max: 23.5 Time on the bike: 5:27:52 I’m not sure what to say about today other than that it was camplete bullshit.  I slept really well and woke up refreshed. After getting my things together I walked outside to get my bike in the shed and to […]

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ST: Day 43

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Daily Miles: 34.5 Total Miles: 2278 Avg: 12.7 Max: 21.3 Time on the bike: 02:44:41 I slept in because I wasn’t in much of a rush today. This lasted all until 6:30 AM, which was really my biological 7:30 AM, on account of that time change thing that happened yesterday. I packed my things and

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ST: Day 42

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Daily Miles: 103 Total Miles: 2244 Avg: 13.9 Max: 27.3 Time on the bike: 07:25:18 Today was my first 100 mile day. It wasn’t planned. I got to what was supposed to be a campsite to find an old abandoned campground only a quarter mile from the Mexican border. It was once a campsite but

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ST: Day 41

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Daily Miles: 75.5 Total Miles: 2140 Avg: 10.5 Max: 16.9 Time on the bike: 7:08:48 Today was another frustrating and unrewarding day of riding. For starters, it was about 35 degrees when I set out and the wind, which of course was a headwind, was blowing pretty fiercely. Not a good mental start.  I pedaled

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ST: Day 40

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No miles on the bike. A few walking around town. Marfa is a quiet and unusual place. On one hand you have a big art scene, one you may find in a large city somewhere, and on the other hand, Marfa is mostly a small ranching town that has a border patrol office, a few

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ST: Day 39

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Daily Miles: 60 Total Miles: 2065 Avg: 11.3 Max: 26 Time on the bike: 05:17:30 Today will be a day to remember, to look back and say: I survived this day. This day with the wind advisory and the 40 mph wind gusts. This day with the dodging of tumbleweeds the size of Volkswagens. This

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ST: Day 38

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Daily Miles: 55 Total Miles: 2005 Avg: 10.3 Max: 18.8 Time on the Bike: 05:20:40 Last night was pretty terrible and I didn’t sleep well. The dog kept barking all night and people kept driving back and forth near my tent. I’m not sure where they were going because there is nothing in Sanderson. At

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ST: Day 37

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Daily Miles: 60 Total Miles: 1949 Avg: 12.1 Max: 30.7 Time on the bike: 04:57:07 “Wow, are you the biker?” this early 20-something, wide eyed, short blonde haired girl practically yelled at me as I walked through the visitors center at 8:00 AM to immediately use the restroom.  “Yeah…that’s me.”  Her eyes flared up wider.

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ST: Day 36

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Daily Miles: 51 Total Miles: 1889 Avg: 12.3 Max: 31.3 Time on the bike: 04:08:48 I slept pretty good and was on the road by 7:30. The world suddenly opened up and now I was in the desert. There were canyons and big rivers and mountains in the distance. It was very beautiful. I stopped

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ST: Day 35

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Daily Miles: 46.5 Total Miles: 1838 Max: 20.6 Avg: 10.8 Time on the bike: 04:17:06 I woke up late today, 7:00 AM, because I wasn’t going very far. I needed to do some grocery shopping in Del Rio about 32 miles away, to stock up on food for the next several days, as the riding

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