We make it to california today. Which means we are now
In our final state.
Baker is a tittle name for this place, because baking is exactly what we did today. We spent the day riding through the Mojave nature preserve to get to Baker, which proudly calls itself the gateway to death valley. Today’s high acording to one local we talked to was 118. Which was much better than yesterday’s high of 126.
After getting to bed around 1am this morning we got up at the lovely hour of 4:30am to try and beat some of the day’s heat. We has two options for the ride today. The leaders were either going to have us go 102 miles on back roads, or 72 miles half of which were on the interstate. Luckually they decided to go for the 72 mile option. So we spent the first 32 miles this morning warming up, and then just before lunch we started climbing the mountains again. We continued climbing and decensing through the mountains until 17 miles outside of baker when everything began to go downhill. We literally had a 17 mile straight uninterupted mile decent into town today. I literally didn’t pedal for the last 45 minutes of my ride today, which was fantastic, because by the point of the day the sun was melting me straight to my bike and I don’t know if my legs would have worked anyway.
As soon as we got in today most of us, espically those who went to Vegas last night, fell directly asleep. We were laying on the un airconditioned floor of the baker community center, but we didn’t care at all. Iwas slept more sountly during that nap then I may have during any night during this trip. I only woke up to eat dinner and then go to the pool so I could shower. After dinner and the pool, on the way back to the community center I stopped at the Mad Greek, which is a Greek truck stop I guess. It was the first time I had seen one of those, so I got myself a gyro for second dinner, and then I headed back to the community center so I could try and get a few hours of sleep before we wake up at 4:30am tomorrow to try and do this all over again.
