Danny’s Ride

Day Statistics:
Bike Time: 3 Hours, 55 Minutes, 06 Seconds
Miles: 62.50 Total
Average Speed: 16.0 mph
Max Speed: 31.8

Total Miles to Date: 511.474

After a great hotel breakfast, packing the motor home, running to Wal-Mart and Subway and driving to our starting place, we did not get on the road with the bikes until around 1:00.  Usually, we are going to start earlier.  Especially on the longer days!

Due to yesterday’s bike problem, we started from where I ended yesterday – a gas station in the middle of the Apache reservation.  At first, the roads had little to no shoulder and were extremely hilly.  The good news was we had a great tail wind which pushed us.  After about twenty miles, the roads opened up with wider shoulders, much flatter and had less traffic.  At this point, we really began to cruise.

For the first thirty miles, Ken met us every ten miles.  Since we were in no cell phone range, Ken stayed close in order to help if we had any problems.  However, he disappeared for quite a while.  When I finally got back into cell phone range, I had several voice messages and texts from him.  He had driven all the way back to Globe – where we had lunch while driving to our starting place – to pick up Danny’s phone.  At some point during lunch, Danny’s phone had slipped out of his pocket.  The employees working the restaurant looked under recent calls and called Ken!

Ken drove over 50 miles to get Danny’s phone.  What a great guy! 

We finished the day at 60.5 miles.  It was a great ride.  Danny is certainly getting stronger.  There were times when he pulled away from me and I had to kick it into another gear just to catch him!  With each day, Danny is becoming quicker and stronger on the bike.  By the time, we get to Texas, he will be blowing by me!!

We will be doing roughly 70 miles tomorrow and expect to be on the road by 8:00 a.m.  This should allow us to be done mid-afternoon and have the afternoon to relax.