Cutting to the chase: today was by far the most intense day yet. We cycled through heat in the desert with monster hills and pretty much no pit stops to be found! We guzzled our wąy through our water bottles before half way and luckily had two emergency hydration bags filled this morning. Without any roadside stops we even ate through almost all our supplies in an effort to push tthrough his forsaken wasteland!
Even with drinking and snacking as often as possible, the heat was wearing us down. With 10k to go we happened upon an oasis of sorts. A restaurant tea house with a lush green lawn, flowers, and the most delicious lunch. They apparently work quite hard at keeping their place beautiful and water the entire place any day it's not raining to keep it from drying.
We were able to find supplies in Cache Creek and are preparing for tomorrow's big rainy ride to Kamloops! Right now everything is hidden under the shelter of our tent's fly. Coincidentally we have been singing songs with "fly" in it any time we have to pack it up. Top three:
I believe I can fly
Fly Like an eagle
Lenny Kravitz' "I want to get away i want to flyyyy awayy"
I'll attach a photo of jitters with a camera affixed to his helmet today for our photography experiment.
Special thanks to all those leaving comments. We love reading them all!!
I had no idea BC had that sort of desert.
ReplyDeleteHow are your legs holding up so far? Sore mornings or are you getting used to it?
Hey Jamez! Yeah we were just as surprised! The place was completely barren and without even a single gas station.
DeleteLegs are most def. sore in the mornings but we can actually slowly feel ourselves slowly getting stronger as well. There's no question that 80+km of hilly terrain is incredibly intense on the whole body!
"I Believe I Can Fly" is the Neville Brothers' song, dude!
ReplyDeleteI can't tell if my freaking posts are going through! ARRGGH!
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