Day 10 – Las Vegas to Tucumcari
Day 11 >>>>
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[richard uridge]
Poetry, bikes, dementia...
[richard uridge]
Poetry, bikes, dementia...
Rich Uridge
Training company boss by day. Poet and a whole heap of other things by night. Plus the son of a mother who was killed in a care home while living with dementia.
Day 9 – Albuquerque to Las Vegas (no not that one)!
Another day curtailed by dangerously strong cross winds that threatened to dump us on the black top at any moment. Managed to ride 114 miles before Mike Munk (tour leader) called a halt. One of the two Kiwi riders, Symon,…
Day 7 – Gallup to Albuquerque (almost)!
A funny kind of feeling on arrival here in Albuquerque. Elation that the first seven days of riding are behind us and that the first rest day is ahead of us. Sadness that we were unable to ride the whole…
Day 6 – Winslow, Arizona to Gallup, New Mexico
Day 7 >>>>
Day 5 – Cottonwood to Winslow
Day 6 >>>>
Day 4 – Wickenburg to Cottonwood
Day 5 >>>>
Day 3 – Blythe CA to Wickenburg AZ
Day 4 >>>>
Day 2 – Palm Springs to Blythe
Day 3 >>>>
Day 1 – Costa Mesa to Palm Springs
Day 2 >>>>>
Goofy
It’s 10.30 at night here in California and in precisely six and a half hours our alarm will go off on a routine that will continue for the next 28 days. Up at 5am. Breakfast at 5.30am. On the road…