February 2012
14 posts
“Just had our first experience getting kicked out of a park for camping against...”
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Malls and Malls of Desert in Every Direction..
From Marathon to Sanderson was a change of terrain. Not entirely different from the desert we had been passing by for the previous two weeks, but the hills lengthened and the horizon was lower and further away. We had the wind with us so our trip was a quick one.
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Sanderson had three things we like: water, fried okra, and a big bridge with nothing else around other than train...
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““I keep looking because if you scare me, at least you exist”
-Carley McKee
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La Loma Del Chivo
On a suggestion from John The Bikeman in Alpine we decided we would stay a night in Marathon, thirty miles East. The place we were going to was a hostel called La Loma del Chivo.
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A little searching through the small town and we found what appeared to be a vacant wonderland of repurposed material built homes.
We walked around looking for someone and eventually we wandered...
“Stuck in Hondo, TX with a busted axle. Time for some ‘Aztec...”
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Big Bend
After Fort Davis, we made it in to Alpine and hoped for a short day of riding along with an indoor place to stay. We spent a long time in the library and going all over town, but we had nothing more than leads that were going nowhere.
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We resolved to eating at a Chinese buffet until we felt uncomfortably full and ready to sleep under a bridge. While eating, we received a message from a...
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“Rain in Terlingua, Texas
A gun for every ten fingers. Firearm from forearm...”
“After 6 days without showers we finally found a host in Alpine. He’s...”
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Lone Stars
The following day to our first frontal assault from wind was yet another day of frontal assaults from the wind.
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We crept toward a small town called Fort Hancock where we hoped we could find water to refill our bottles. We came up to a grocery store and saw three bicycles loaded with gear, fellow travelers.
We met Tim and Noah Hussin, two men riding across the country and shooting a...
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“Life
Boy, I tell you Life is a long word for such a short experience.
I would...”
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Texas, Ya'll
Welcome to El Paso and West Texas, a city and a part of the country that neither of us knows enough to blog about, but here’s what we saw.
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When we came into town, we went to the UTEP library to charge phones and maybe find a person on couch surfing to stay with. What we found is that Caleb’s phone charger went sort of, umm, missing, but a lovely lady’s phone had been left at the...
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“Airplane
Andrew takes his hands off the handlebars.
We are going downhill...”
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Over the Hump Day
We stayed in Truth or Consequences on Tuesday with a woman named Colleen. She was our second Couch Surfing host and she continued the trend of being welcoming beyond any expectations. We spent a long time talking to her and her daughter, Emily. They proved to be very interesting people that made us feel at home. Colleen, thanks for the lasagna, polenta, and the cookies. Emily, thanks for the...
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Bike Life
We’re starting a little behind schedule on the blog because we wanted to have content to post, but to have content we had to ride and to ride we had to be out away from towns and all those internets which leaves us without the capability of posting frequently as we go (it’s a perpetual cycle yuck-yuck). This is why our first post about being on the road is overwhelming with content and, ahem,...
