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Cross-Country Ramble 19: We're Back!
Sent: 96-05-18 22:22:14 EDT
We're back on the road again.
After riding through the desert from El Paso to Fort Hancock today, last week in Washington, DC, seems like a dream. In Washington the weather was downright cool, never even reaching 70 degrees in the daytime. The average tree seemed to be 60-70 feet high. They were all over the place! Under the trees was green, green, grass. Azaleas were in bloom, great gobs of showy red and lavender. And not a sprinkler system in sight, unless of course you count the rain that came right out of the sky.
The weather here today was HOT! It was pushing 100 degrees. I can't recall a day since we left Ventura that it hasn't been at least 90 degrees. We were grateful for the few large trees along the roadside. They provided some respite from the sun. We rode past pecan orchards and cotton fields with canals running along side of them. And we rode past miles and miles of desert scrub as well as dead and dying towns.
Upon finally reaching our motel room hot and tired, the clerk gleefully told us that our route to Van Horn tomorrow is mostly uphill. "Straight up!" were the words he used. Bah!
After a week off, I guess it will take a while to get back into the cycling groove.
Carol
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