I drove so far in my stupor last night that I’m only an hour from San Antonio this morning where I have a couchsurf arranged. Since I got a motel room, I hang out and write a little then cut my hair before heading out a bit before noon. It’s a short drive and I [...]

Day 15 It’s warm already as I head out the door from Russ’ house. I can tell today is going to be a hot one, and I’m heading to even hotter regions… I keep telling myself that after Death Valley it can’t be all that bad. Well, it was pretty close, and even more concerning [...]

Day 14 Miles driven 472 – Total Miles 5163 – Safford, AZ to El Paso, TX – 8 hours on the bike I woke with the early morning sun again at about 5am as it was warm even up on the mountain in southern Arizona, and I knew the sun would heat things up fast. [...]

Day 13 Miles driven 455 – Total Miles 4691 – Mountainaire, AZ to Safford, AZ – 7 hours on the bike I’ve only gone about 4500 miles so far and my back tire is almost gone!! I was expecting to get about 6000 miles out of it, but I guess it’s time to replace it [...]

Day 12 Miles driven 352 – Total Miles 4326 – Williams, AZ to Mountainaire, AZ – 5 hours on the bike It was nice to sleep in a bed again. Soft and comfy, and I knew a shower awaited me when I got up. I sleep just fine on the ground, but it’s a sleep [...]

Day 11 Miles driven 494 – Total Miles 3884 – Marcos, CO to Williams, AZ – 12 hours on the bike All night I heard the plopping and bubbling of a stream nearby, but hadn’t known how close it was until the morning. There was a nice little stream about 20 feet from where I [...]

Day 10 Miles driven 423 – Total Miles 3390 – Escalante, UT to Marcos, CO – 10 hours on the bike I’m getting into the habit of waking up with the sun or fairly close to it now. As I broke down my camp and loaded up my bike again, I was thinking how similar [...]

Day 9 Miles driven 423 – Total Miles 2968 – Furnace Creek, CA to Escalante, UT – 11 hours on the bike I am in awe over the Zion experience. The whole lead up into Zion on through to the end is absolutely fantastic. As you approach from the west side of the park you [...]

Advanced warning again… there are a lot of pictures on this post. As I took so many pictures, I wanted to separate this post on Death Valley out into it’s own post. Don’t under-estimate the heat in Death Valley. It’s is amazingly hot in the summer. I wasn’t really prepared for how hot it was [...]

Day 6 Miles driven 256 – Porterville, CA to Long Beach, CA – 6 hours on the bike Another great night of camping. I spent the night in the Sequoia National Forest up on some mountain near Porterville, CA. I neither saw nor heard another human the whole time I was up there, just the [...]