Just a day...
breakfast in front of my tent, made some coffee. Ate six sandwiches before I packed Leo, my bike and dear friend. In a little town I ate second breakfast in a little restaurant, pancakes,srambled egges and sausages, toast, and coffe. Bought some nice maps of southern Utah in a bookshop and checked my e-mail for free in the library. On those fine maps I discovered a shortcut to Dead Horse Point State Park, four wheel drive only... Stones as big as oranges all over the sandy trail. slalommend ( don't know it i8n english, hi hi ) I can bike, its going up withe percentages between 5 abd 10 percent. Still I can bike. It's hot, 29 celc but I am fine, surroundede by huge red stone walss, maybe 300 meters hogh, super ! It is getting steeper, sometimes 12 %, with only two bidons of water left I am thinking about hoiw nice it woulkd be ai work, putting booking nrs in the computer, nice chair, radio, coffeemachine... A question pops up in my mind, where should I rather be, at work or here, where it is getting even steeper, 15 % . Biking it only for 20 meters than I stop and start walking, pulling Leo. 20 % and even pulling is almost impossible, my feet slip away on the sand, shit ! I am tired rest every 200 meters drink something and moive on... Mad man's work, 7 km in 1 1/2 hour. But I am almost there. My arm is hurting pulling Leo at tyhe saddle, the last km takes half an hour... Then I am on top ! Shouting out loud, yahooooo, I did it !!! Yeahhhh !!! I am so gladI made it ! The road is much betterhere on top, easy I bike the last 11 km to the camping ground. There is only one hand left between the sun and horizon, 1 hour sun left... Campground is full but I look for a place to put my tent on, no way I go any further after 101 km ! My tent stands, then a car comes riding in. shit, I ask the people, no I almost beg the people for a little space for my tent and finally they agree, always a tired biker, ha ha ! It's like you're female, nice looking and blond, you get anything done ! Ha ha ha. Nice people, americans from Phoenix , even offer me a cold beer, mmmm ! Then theu invite me for dinner, if I like soup, rice, toasted bread with ham, 10 different sauces, thee, cookies, sdeesert, nice talking and laughing ? Yeah, I do !!! Then they give me little bags with coffe, hot chocolate, thee and invite me to their home in Phoenix, adresses change owner. My belly filled I go wash myself and go get some sleep...
You won’t see me pushing the bike uphill on a sandy road while there are beautiful tar roads going down hill…
all the way now that I’ve said it…
. Today I met again some nice folks from Salt Lake City, nice talking to them. They asked me if I needed anything, I said: nouhouuu, actually I need some coffee but the shops are closed, if they knew something ? They didn"t, wanted to give me their adress but Salt Lake City is a way out of my route. Talked a little more and said goodbey. I finished lunch and took a little nap, in the warm sun. Temp risen up to 27 Celsius. When I left half a hour later I see the folks from Salt Lake City riding to me, they bought coffee for me and m&m's !!! I told them they are very sweet and took a picture of them. Ain't that something !!! They drove 30 miles to bring it to me !
