More late starts. I’m in a new time zone too, so heading out at 11 means it’s pretty much noon and it was already very hot out.
My first stop for the day was a small town 20 miles down the road, where it turned out that the only restaurant had gone out of business. Gas station hot dogs it is. Back on the road and the miles are going by pretty quickly. Get chased by a big dog but manage to outrun it, which causes me to get tired and I slow down for the first time of the day.
The road, route 24, disappears and turns into a dirt/gravel road paralleling I-70. It’s not very fun to ride on as most of it has dirt too deep to safely ride on and so I dart back and forth to stay on the hardest surface to prevent from wiping out.
30 miles since my first stop and I pull into another town, this one has a diner that’s open so I pop in for a real lunch. During lunch I research the legality of riding bikes on interstates in Colorado and call my brother to inform him that I’ll be arriving in Denver on Saturday instead of Sunday.
Turns out that it’s generally not illegal to ride on interstates in Colorado and so I take the remaining 33 miles on I-70 since my only alternatives are dirt roads. I don’t know how but I managed to average 17 mph for two hours to my destination for the evening, Limon.
Today’s mileage: 77 miles.
Total: 2266 miles.
Whoopee! See you arrived in Denver an hour ago. Give your brother our warmest greetings. Glad your wipe-out injiury didn’t keep you from getting there in good time!