June 24

 Today's ride went better than I expected.  I started packing up my tent and belongings at 5:30am because the temperatures were in the mid 40's and I was too cold to fall back asleep.  After Brian got up and packed we went to a cafe in Wisdom for a ham/egg/cheese sandwich to start our day.

We were worried that we wouldn't have a place to stop between Wisdom and Dillon - the entire 66.7 miles.  We usually like to stop along the way for a snack or to refill drinks.  Luckily, the "town" of Jackson was 18 miles from Wisdom.  We thought Wisdom was a small town, but not compared to Jackson.  The whole town was less than two blocks, but luckily, we were able to get some warm Gatorade from a car shop with a broken vending machine.  After that, we didn't see signs of civilization for another 42 miles.

The ride today called for 66.7 miles and climbing over two mountain passes.  We started off kind of sluggishly but slowly got into a groove.  The mountain passes were long, slow, tough rides up but were a joy to ride down the other side.  Very little traffic on the road today.

The landscape here is just so impossibly large that it's hard to judge the distance or scale of things you see in the distance.  Quite often we would see a car or truck come around a bend in the road ahead of us and yet it would be several minutes before that vehicle passed us.