Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Day 3: God Blessed the Broken Road That Led Us to Thoreau(pronounced "thu-roo")

First off, we thought Arizona/New Mexico was flat, hot, and that we'd have the wind at our backs pushing us east. Well, we were wrong. We've been biking uphill, freezing, fighting the wind for three days, but tonight it should stay above freezing. Yay.

Anyways, we woke up to the beautiful Rascal Flatts song (referenced in blog title) this morning (shout out to our girls) and the whole day we just were fighting to get to a little city named Thoreau. Ends up, we missed a turn yesterday, and we continued so far east there was no going back. So we looked for side roads and paths to get us to Thoreau, so from there we can ride again on the highway towards Albequerque.

We found a dirt path, and walked alongside railway tracks for over seven miles. If was beautiful, and it felt better to walk for a change. So we were grateful for the 'broken' dirt road that we followed. After we got to  Thoreau, we rode quickly to Grants. Here we stopped by the LDS chapel, and bumped into the missionaries! Who let us inside to cook a quick meal. Guess where we are sleeping tonight? Bishop gave us permission to camp on chapel grounds. 

Also, we just wanted to give a shout out to last years 'The Road to Henefer is Paved with Good Intentions' day last year with Jeff Widtfeldt. Today was very similar and frustrating. Wish he could be here with us now too!




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