Colorado

We have reached Colorado!!

Yesterday we crossed the Kansas/Colorado border and have officially reached the mountain state! I'm kind of excited to see the mountains after a week of flat corn and wheat fields. Yesterday morning started with another wonderful breakfast of Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches before hitting the road at 7AM! About 18 miles into the ride we reached the Colorado border and stopped to take photos next to the Welcome to Colorado sign. Shortly after reaching Colorado we found our support van stopped along side the road at a elevator for a water break with many team members checking out the view from above. Riding through the plains you see many grain elevators as they are often a sign of the next town along with water towers. I did not climb as high as some of my teammates but did go up for a view from above.

Our ride consisted of just 59 miles (yes, 59 miles is considered a short day!) so we reached our designation - Eads, CO by lunch time and ate once we reached the Community Center/Fair Grounds where were are staying.

The people of Eads have been amazing as three churches combined to put on dinner last night at the community center serving a pot luck type of dinner of lasagna, pork, potato salad, along with many other delicious foods and desserts. We were able to spend dinner talking with many of the local residents getting to know a little about them and telling them about what are doing.

This morning we awoke to a delicious breakfast of Chocolate Chip pancakes, eggs, bacon made by Mark, Mike, Jon and Nick. It is always nice to get a hot breakfast on an off day after having peanut butter and jelly most mornings.

After breakfast I went to check out the local Art Gallery and then headed "downtown" where I visited a few small shops and stopped at the post office to send somethings I have not used home, before heading to the grocery store to buy English Muffins, cheese and tomato sauce and make English Muffin Pizza for lunch.

We are off to Ordway, CO tomorrow before we reach Pueblo on Saturday where the mountains start!

Till next time,

Sandra