Friday April 17, 2015

We had a good breakfast and continued to cycle on relatively quiet, flat roads.

At one point I started to laugh, my silly sense of humour – “Passmore Gas and Propane”.

Today we had to join US Interstate 10. A busy highway with a wide shoulder, with a lot of road debris. Not the kind of riding we enjoy, but there was no other option. We were on the Interstate for 40 kms. It was hot and noisy such a change from the past few days.

We passed the California State Line – yeah we are in California.

We exited the highway at Blythe and headed towards our warmshowers host for the night. Wayne at the Bait Shop! When we arrived Victoria came out of the store, showed us where we could pitch the tent, where the shower and laundry was and then told us that all touring cyclists get two beers each for free! We have found heaven.

We pitched the tent and then went to be sociable with the people who were sitting out front, shooting the breeze. The people were really friendly and I chatted to Jim who was in his 90’s, Ralf chatted to Mark and Steven. We had a couple of beers, then Jim bought us two more. We stayed chatting for a while, then made a move to shower and do some laundry.

We picked up some provisions for dinner, and had dinner an interesting mix of wieners and beans and chicken and wild rice stew. We ate in the “pool room”, which had this great sign – no drinking (even out of brown paper bags)!

We went back to chat to the guys and had another beer, with them. We chatted for a while with Mark and then headed to the tent, for a relatively early night. Mark asked what time we would be up as he would cook us breakfast.