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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Final Ride! Separ to Columbus-Mexico Border Crossing 8/21 64 miles
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Pie Town to Hwy 12 near Old Horse Springs 8/20 42 miles

The rest of the ride was pretty uneventful thank God. We did have a horrible bone jarring 5 mile descent to Rocky, who was parked next to the highway. Again for the sake of time, and the want to visit the Gila Cliff Dwellings, we drove from Old Horse Springs area 150 miles or so to Silver City.
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Grant to Pie Town 8/19 58 miles
One incident did slow us down a bit. There was a dust spout(like a water spout/tornado) on the left side of the road. It was spinning there for several seconds, and since it was on a downhill, I decided to ride past it. Well at this point, it decided to move across the trail into me! I felt like I was in a real tornado! It was pulling my legs off my pedals, and sandblasting me. It slowed me from 15 miles an hour to standing still, but did not push me over. It was the strangest sensation. Once it passed, I needed a few moments to regroup. Sarah had watched the whole thing from behind. She couldn't believe I even attempted to go, but then just watched, shocked, as the dust spout consumed me. A short time later, Daren called. Silas was going ride with us into town so he could get pie. We met up with him toward the end of the road, and rode the last 5 miles or so up and down the hilliest hottest section to Pie Town. Daren had checked out the town before we got there. Two restaurants selling pie and a post office. What more could you want? Apparently the first pie restaurant(at the bottom of a hill) was not friendly. The PIE-O-NEER restaurant(at the top of a hill) was much friendlier, so we went there(one more hill!). After a small lunch, we started in. They had the best pie! Banana creme, apple-cranberry al la mode, lemon meringue. All the pies freshly made, fantastic! We ended up staying at a small rv camp in Pie Town. No dinner that night.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
8/18 ClearCreek Camp to Pueblo Pintado 63 miles
Silas and I headed up the road in Rocky. We saw after the long climb, the old familiar hot, dry desert. After waiting at a designated meeting point for an hour, I decided to backtrack toward them, thinking that they might be incredibly miserable and wanting to call it. I was right. It was a miserable ride for them. Daren at this point had 63 miles and Sarah 21, good enough! We had planned all along to drive from Pueblo Pintado to Grants and the Bandera Volcano and Ice Cave anyway, so cutting it 5 miles or so short didn't seem like a big deal.

After hiking the volcano and the ice cave, we headed to Grants for the night. We met a couple of guys from Vancouver Island who were riding the Divide on dirt bikes. They're both 70 years old, pretty funny and incredibly tough. One guy is from New Zealand, the other from England, so needles to say, pretty fun to listen to.
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Coyote to ClearCreek Camp near Cuba 38 miles
Not much else to report on this ride. We had a screaming downhill to the camp for a mile which I new I would be climbing the next day. I just hope I will be re-inspired by the next morning.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Abiquiu 8/14-8/16 Rest days
After several tough but great days of riding, we met my sister, Deborah and brother in-law, Billy for a few days in beautiful and unique Abiquiu. They made a vacation in New Mexico so they could visit with us, and we were very excited to see family after a month and a half of being on the road.
After spending the 13th at the Abiquiu Reservoir rv park, we drove to Taos to meet them and do several loads of laundry. We didn't want to over burden the septic at the home they rented in Abiquiu, so we thought an afternoon in Taos we be a great way to pass the time. We had lunch and went to several galleries and grocery shopped. A women in a gallery told my sister that a week before it was awful to be there because of smoke from a nearby forest fire. We have been very fortunate on this whole trip to not run into any fires. The only one near the Great Basin in Wyoming was in an area we wanted to skip anyway, so very lucky indeed.
The house they rented in Abiquiu, named Vista de Lago, was great! The construction was very unique incorporating many windows to take advantage of the location on a mesa high above Abiquiu Lake. Also very visible was the Cerro Pedernal mesa, so famously depicted in many of Georgia O'Keefe's paintings.

Sarah, Deborah, Billy and I went to Santa Fe to sight see, shop, and go to the Georgia O'Keefe museum.
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Hopewell Lake to Abiquiu 8/13 57 miles
Rhea's ribs were still painful from her crash the day before so she hitched a ride in the RV with Jody while Joe, Sarah and I rode. We were a bit apprehensive about the road conditions because of yesterday's mud bath but were looking forward to an elevation profile showing 5000 feet of descent and only 1000 feet of climbing. We set out at a brisk pace trying to keep up with Sarah who must have heard that there would be pie and ice cream in Abiquiu. We raced along through the trees and valleys enjoying several long downhills before arriving at the dilapidated old Spanish town of Vallecitose. The town's main street was made of dirt and was lined with a mix of trailers, rusted automobiles and the collapsed remains of 100 year old adobe buildings. The only inhabitants appeared to be vicious dogs who greeted us with a chorus of barking and darted out of driveways to snap and snarl as we ran the 1/4 mile gauntlet. About half way through two behemoths that had been lying in the street fell in on either side of us and "escorted" us to the edge of town before the barking finally subsided.
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