We had a great morning. Slept in, had tea/coffee with RL, shot the shit, and finally headed out about noon today, destination Leasburg State Park (Radium Springs, NM). Intermediate destination, HATCH, home of the famous New Mexico Green Chile. It was a beautiful ride through farmlands of the Rio Grande Valley, fields of chile, cotton, cornfield and orchards of pecans.
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| Those ole cotton fields... |
The Rio Grande is not so grand right now; there's barely any water, it's the Trickle Grande. It needs some of the water we got in Flagstaff this summer!
So we roll into Hatch and Rick notices a wobbling on the back tire, thinks it's a flat. We pull over and the tire doesn't look/feel flat, so we ride another block and I look down at it and there is something weird. Upon closer examination, the tire is warped/lopsided/out of true. We pulled into the Pepper Pot for lunch (very yummy*) and Rick says this tire is done for. Of course we have to get into the botton trailer bag to get the spare tire out. So all in all, we messed around Hatch for a couple of hours. But it was a very nice day, nice temperature, and we found BEER (yay!), and headed out for another short 21 miles to Radium Springs. Easy ride today -- mostly flat, a little up and down, but a piece of cake compared to the last several days of climbing.
Tonight we are at Leasburg State Park; it's a great temperature, quiet, had a great one pot meal of beans, rice, fresh roasted green chile, and cheese AND a six-pack of Fat Tire. It really doesn't get much better than this!!!!
Total: 45.8
Time: 3:24
Avg: 13.47 (this is hauling ass with our 100+ pound trailer load!)
*Pepper Pot is good, but Sparky's is THE PLACE to go; unfortunately, it's closed on Tuesdays/Wednesdays!!!!
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