Elevation gain: 2000 ft
Another beautiful weather day. The sky was clear and we had a tail wind again. What could be better.
Leaving Gallup we were able to ride 20 miles before having to get on the interstate. One of the guys started riding with me and we rode together all day which was really nice. The scenery was beautiful.
Then we had a tough ride on the interstate for about 20 miles. The shoulder was rough and full of gravel. You had to be extremely careful. The were repaving a part of the road. Unfortunately we got our tires loaded with tar. The picture is of one of the riders scraping tar off of our tires. We ended up walking the bikes for about an hour. Than back onto the rocky shoulder. We were very happy to see the exit for the Continental Divide.
The Continental Divide is at 7295 ft. Sorry about the picture being sideways. I can't seem to get a picture to rotate and stay rotated. The ride down from the Divide to Grants was a gradual downhill all the way. With a tail wind it was a pure pleasure. We stopped at a Dairy Queen and the burger tasted so good.
There are a lot of really long freight trains out here. Someone counted 155 double stacked cars on one of them. It is sad to see the dead towns on Route 66. You can imagine them as thriving communities before the interstate.
Today was considered a recovery day. For those of you who bike, I bet you never thought of a metric century as a recovery ride.
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