Stage 3 - Riverside to Rawlins

Pictures of the day:

Terry's birthday picture. It was after riding on the freeway. Can you see the grass laying down flat?

The second picture taken by Rhett was of the three of us on the on ramp to I-80.

Since our last post we (Steve) wanted to tell you briefly about the "redneck" wedding at Lazy Acres Campground where we were staying last night. We knew it might be a little different since there were about 50 ATV's in the campground and the reception was under a "moose hunting" tent. They didn't get too rowdy until after I had put in my ear plugs for the night. However, Terry reports a rather raucous fight with many adjectives flying from a couple that I cannot publish here. We're hoping it was not the newlyweds because they were to be off to Laramie for their honeymoon. One more thing, Rhett speculated that there were more guns in the campground than guests. It is Wyoming after all.

It blows in Wyoming! Thankfully the first forty miles was a stiff tail wind. We averaged between 21-22 mph. We had lunch at a rundown freeway stop-n-rob (Steve's term). Unfortunately, from there we entered the on ramp to the only road, interstate 80, and rode with the traffic . Let me just say, this was not Terry's favorite part of the ride so far. In fact, even though she may not admit it, she was muttering the adjectives she had learned from the night before. We rode into a stiff headwind and had very large semis whizzing by at 80 mph. Not too much fun . . . see urban legend from an earlier post (first day).

We might have more later after Terry's birthday dinner. We're going out to celebrate!!