The distances between towns allow only relatively short (60-80 miles) or extremely long days. The terrain though makes 100+ miles a day extremely hard so I'm just riding from town to town.
Yesterday night was fun, Shaun and me went to a Mexican restaurant and talked to some people there. Two of them had been stationed in Germany for the military, they loved Oktoberfest :D
Eventually they left and surprisingly paid for our food! The waitress told us, we didn't even have a chance to say thank you. Wasn't the first time that happens but you don't get used to it. Amazing how generous people are to strangers!
Shaun had told me everyone was believing he's an Australian and indeed two people in the restaurant asked "are you an australian?", probably not that funny if you haven't been there that moment though ;D
Got told that Lake Tahoe is affected by the fire in Yosemite NP, but the guy said the smoke should be gone by the time we're there. Hopefully. Rode through smoke last year and didn't like it, you don't see anything of the beautiful landscape around you if it's too dense.
Good to see your progress since we happily chatted with you at an overlook west of Telluride. I know the roads and towns you mention, so certainly know of the long distances between water/food/shelter in strong heat, the range after range of mountains, the strong headwinds, and especially the masses of colorful rock as far as you can see. Good luck!!
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