After a great dinner at Lilo’s and a short video about AZ Rt. 66 I had great night sleep in the same room Jon Provost (Timmy), the star of Lassie as well as Clu Gulager and Martin Milner had slept. While Jim Bradbury slept in the same room as Will Rogers Jr. had.The morning was a cold start, 40s as compared to our 80s starts in the desert so I went into my deep storage and took out the woolies. Most of the day was spent on the old sections of red-top tar that is either decaying or had disintegrated. Some of it is simply gravel now.
The road is also disjointed North or South of the Interstate 40 so at times we would reach a dead end and had to jump fences, cross the highway to find the remaining road. This makes us ride in groups so we can hand bikes or hold the barbed wire to help each other make progress.
Lunch was at Twisters, one of Rt. 66 favorites in Williams, AZ, where the special is the milk shakes or malts…the original milkshake is served in a glass along with the “extra” milkshake in the metal shaker. Today was also windy but the wind again was behind us making the climb up to the AZ divide (7400 feet) easier than it would have been otherwise…especially considering the air is thinner with the altitude and I could feel it combined with now 6 days and over 500 miles of cycling. Today was another 80-odd miles with 6000 feet of climbing, making it one of the hard days of the trip and we finished the day in Flagstaff.
PS There are more “official” pictures of the trip that Lon is taking on http://www.pactour.com/
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