Chek Inn Lamar
1210 S Main Street Lamar, Colorado, 81052, United States
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... of wind in any direction which is perfectly alright with me. For a bulk of the riding we were at or above 20 mph, so not only was this my longest ride, but it was also one of my fastest.
We didn't spend long at any of the support stops because we had one mission today and that was to get to the hotel before the sun melted us into the pavement. We did, however, swing by Dairy Queen in Las Animas where Ron and ...
Rough ride
... would lessen the damage. We were both able to sleep for a few hours. Then came the rain and hail. Things could have been much worse. We woke up around 6 am with a water logged tent and camera. We almost broke down and got a motel to wait out the storm, but luckily found an alternative solution. The rain has finally stopped and we hope to leave tomorrow morning and finally enter KAnsas. We hope that our tent can handle all that Kansas has to offer. Until next ...
Mexican Food - Why Bother?
More headwinds. We met another cycle tourer - an American called Daniel who is heading for Pueblo.
We got to Lamar where we used WiFi at a McDonalds. We hadn't gone very far but we were tired, fed up and thought: "Let's just get to a motel. I'm sick of today". We asked in a few and eventually stayed at a Day's Inn. We had wanted to walk the 0.8 miles to a Thai restaurant we'd found on the internet but ...
Potayto - potahto
... br> We got to the John Martin Reservoir state park. It has a huge dam and you can camp by it and fish and go boating. Americans really love fishing and messing about in boats. Apparently bald eagles nest here, too. Ee haven't seen any.
We had difficulty finding the camping area, as things were not signposted well and the information office was closed (you'd think they'd have maps ...
La primera semana en Granada
... photos so everyone can see!
I arrived in Granada last Sunday, Jan. 16 and the first night we stayed at Hotel Melia. I met people from my program on my flight, which was nice. Since then it feels like it has just been a whirlwind of activities and meeting people. We got our host families the next day and my senora is named Francisca. She lives with her three sonsī(but she has 4), Dioni (21), Francisco and Gapato (we think that ...



