Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Day 23: No mustard for you!
98.0 miles. 13 mph. Amazing day. The climbs were very gradual and the scenery was breathtaking. It looks like Colorado is colorful after all. We took down camp and left Dolores, CO around 830 am. It was a moderate 50 mile climb to Lizard Head Pass but on the way we stopped at the Mountain Top Gas Station. Suzy, the owner, made us each the best turkey sandwich. It was on a croissant roll and had delicious home-made mustard. When Tim asked for no mustard she seemed very taken aback. With a big sigh she said,"ok, but the mustard makes the sandwich." It was almost as if she was going to turn into the mustard Nazi. About 10 minutes later her son came by to pick-up some beer. We heard him say,"it's probably not a good idea but we're going to do some drinking and play with a chainsaw." As he was leaving he turned to us and remarked,"so I hear one of you didn't get the mustard." We realized this may be the talk of the town for weeks.
We originally thought about stopping in Placerville but we arrived there early so we decided to keep on going. We found a nice/interesting hostel here in Ridgway, CO. It's made of Adobe.
Shout out to Lex for his sagacious advice about our shout outs. Good luck to you and the rest of the team at NCAA pre-lims this weekend!
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Tim has never been a mustard guy. It's the beer drinking chain saw guy that scares me more than the mustard Nazi.
ReplyDeleteHaha yea we agree. The mustard Nazi was actually very friendly.
ReplyDeleteI think going to two "placervilles" in one trip would cause some kind of disturbance in the space-time continuum....better that you avoided the second one.
ReplyDeleteFunny that we have been to Maui and back and you are still plugging away - good on both of you! While in Maui we drove to the top of the Haleakala Crater. The road is beautiful and we thought of your 10K mountains. Only problem with this one is that it's 10K of climbing in ~22 miles - switchback city. Please stay safe and keep the updates coming!
Can you guys pedel a little faster? We miss you both. Be safe. Love Mom's
ReplyDeleteYou guys are making great progress! Got back from Maui last week so busy just catching up.
ReplyDeleteSo once you finish crossing the lower 48, there is a great ride up to Maui's Haleakala Crater and then back down.
Katherine
Congrats on breaking the 100 mark on blog readers! :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see you guys are almost reaching the halfway point. I am curious to see those beards in another 23 days...haha!
Love,
Megan
Hi! Finally caught up on the blog and I'm loving it. Sounds like such a blast. Both my dad and I are following. I'm thinking about buying a bike so I will need your input when you return! We had a Breen Track Club meeting/dinner tonight and I met Kylie Mae and played with Owen. Looking forward to facemelting it up at the GLR!
ReplyDeleteKeep it up! - Lauren