Woman, wake up – get out of your bed! She wants
an early start – hoping to get to Mt. Carmel Jct before clouds drop all what
they contain. That should be a good 90 km ride… So no time to play around.
It’s rather cool outside this early –
time for the leg warmers and a sweater. We need to cycle through the Red Canyon
again – downhill and ON THE BIKE PATH! My woman is worrying a bit about that
last part: this early there is more wildlife out and also – will the rain of
the last days not have blocked the path (which would mean she will have to
climb again to get of the path). The other option is a ticket for being on the
road not fit for bicycles (downhill there are signs prohibiting bicycles to use
the main road!). Wisely she chooses the path.
But what do I hear – this loud,
shrill noise coming from my woman??? She has this whistle in her mouth on the
downhill – scaring the animals away (some ground squirrels do need to get out
of her way!). And there was no obstruction on the path! Yes! Cycling out of the
Red Canyon – meeting the green valley again… we’ve seen this some days ago!
That was a good timing – in the time schedule she has set! Now we can follow
good old US 89 again. My boss bought this leaflet about the weather –
predicting the weather using the clouds. Well – I must tell – she still has to
do a lot of reading. We need to cycle uphill for the first 20 somewhat miles:
will she make it before the storms will come? In Hatch, she decides to call the
Thunderbird and change her reservation. Hatch is also the place where we’ll
sleep tonight. That’s about 30 km done from the almost 90. The rest is for
tomorrow! The motel is a nice place
and the boss sends us off to the Galaxy, a
diner where we’ll get 20% off the meals. Breakfast there sounds good!
It’s loaded
with older Texan people on their ATV – and my boss sympathizes with the
waitress: she hardly gets any tip money at all from them! She throws down her
apron and leaves the building very angrily. Along the way back to the motel my
boss visits the antique shop.
Now she doesn’t have to hurry to get anywhere –
she can play again! In the end it turns out this day seems to be the most
perfect day to be cycling or being outside: there was hardly a cloud in the sky
in the afternoon – something we haven’t seen for days! The days usually start
out with blue sky but afternoon time -
that’s a different story. But my boss doesn’t mind – tomorrow she can do
the rest of today’s ride… She can get to school one day later… No???
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