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Santa Rosa to Tucumcari, NM 04-27-2026 Day 17

We were once again up in time for breakfast at 6 AM. The winds might be uncontrollable like yesterday, so we wanted …

We knew today’s challenge was going to be the wind. Fortunately, it was going to be mostly at our backs, pushing us …

Today was going to be short in distance and long on wind and climbing. While the climb was going to be over …

We awoke to one of the coldest mornings so far. When we walked down to the lobby of our hotel for the …

Just before I went to bed last night, I put a patched tube into my front tire. It had ended the day …

Yesterday was a day and night of fixing punctured tire tubes. Today started pretty well, especially for me because there was a …

Although Brad’s Desert Inn was a nice enough place, they did not offer breakfast. They did have a fridge, microwave, and coffee …

We took our time leaving the hotel in Winslow because we knew it was only about a 35 mile ride to Holbrook. …

The early morning in Flagstaff was below 30 degrees. By the time we made it through another continental breakfast, repacked everything, lubed …

I saw that the continental breakfast at our hotel was, as one of my Warm Showers hosts once said “Breakfast for people …