Wahoo!!! Though today was still flatish and tomorrow will be too, we can see the rockies on the horizon. We're in Ordway tonight (in an awesome, cheap, being-restored hotel that's pretty darn luxurious - complete with luxurious towels), and we arrived with pretty good timing. We got up at 4:30 again this morning (yay) and completed the 63 miles just as it was getting hot. The road still wasn't all that great, but around the halfway point it did turn green. Different colored pavement always amuses me (we had pink back in Kentucky). Near the end, we ran into 12 miles worth of Union Pacific cattle cars just being stored on the track. The terrain hasn't changed that much (still scrubby and rolling plains), so the graffitti entertained me most of the ride. We've run into a ton of cyclists within the past few days, many of whom are doing the Western Express to Transam (San Fran to Yorktown). Shortly after I got settled, it started thundering and pouring rain. Though that's cleared, I'm still quite pleased we weren't on the road for that. Tomorrow, we go to Pueblo - the launching point into the Rockies. I'm pumped about the mountains. Some New Zealanders warned us that there can be long stretches with little food/drink, but that'll be more toward Wyoming (which starts in the next map set).
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