Yet another fine, clear morning with little wind. The temperature soon began to rise and was summery in the afternoon.
Breakfast was eggs, French toast, cereal and fruit salad. Good for cycling perhaps but nothing too exciting!
I left the hotel near the tail of the field at about 6.55am. the first 31 miles were great – a slight tail wind and some gentle down hills. A few rumble strips added excitement to the day. Riding up one gentle rise, I thought I was going slow but my speedo said 25mph!
The 2nd and 3rd 30 miles were more difficult with a touch of a head / cross wind. The scenery was salt flats and scrub – nothing exciting and all down the freeway.
Just before 12pm I reached the hotel at Lovelock. A strange, rather ghost looking town. Naturally, the hotel comes complete with a casino.
Cycling stats for the day are 4hrs 28m, 91 miles and a maximum of 33.7mph.
Lunch was a reasonable walk down the road at McDonalds. We then located a post office and then FREE e-mail at the local library. I had a good e-mail catch up and stamped all the postcards ready to mail – it is supposedly US$0.50 per card! Time will tell!
Dinner was of standard fare but good quality and plentiful i.e. chicken, pasta, meatballs, salad, lasagna (vege) etc. No dessert!
The 1st fax from home arrived and I collected this without charge (I didn’t ask!) and mailed my postcards.
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