(Let me first say I took a few days to write this post so I could calm down and assess my emotions. I thought about sugar coating it to not make a certain party look bad, but there are a lot of people giving me tons of moral support on my journey. To tell them [...]

We got on the road about noon and headed down Mesa Street in El Paso. It is absolutely beautiful with views of the strip, Mexico, and New Mexico. On the strip we ate lunch, picked up some vitamins at GNC, and tubes from Wal-Mart. The strip was very busy this time of day and we [...]

We pedaled on through Easter Sunday and everyone was celebrating. Easter is a huge holiday for the Hispanic population. I smelled barbeque all day long as we passed many houses. We arrived in a town and I asked some locals in front of a church where I could get some of this barbeque. They said, [...]

We stopped at a local truck stop for breakfast. I got the works plus some and it was excellent. These Texas portions are keeping us well fed and the prices are fair. We had to hop on I-10 for part of the day, but luckily there were service roads to ride on along the side [...]

I woke up to another flat tire and changed the tube. We had to backtrack about a mile from the campsite to town for breakfast. The heavy winds pushed us along without pedaling, but we knew it was just going to be extra work for us on the way back. After breakfast we filled up [...]

When we woke up the regulars at the hostel all seemed to have hangovers from Norbert’s going away party the night before. They invited us to breakfast at the local café. We both had breakfast burritos and discussed the best route through the mountains. The cook had his laptop and helped us figure it out. [...]

We woke up in the abandoned building and picked up the trash the previous cyclists had left behind. I figured we would give cyclists a better image so the owner would be more inclined to let future cyclists stay. I rebuilt Andrew’s wheel. Luckily Bryan at Links and Kinks had given us 12 extra spokes [...]

Upon waking up we had peanut butter and jelly for breakfast, got packed, and quickly got on our way. We rode near the Mexican border all day. There were Border Patrol trucks nearly every mile searching through the bushes for illegals. We went through some beautiful scenery including canyons and rivers that run from the [...]

I woke up right as the sun was coming up. It was way too cold for the cold showers the campground offered. This was our first time packing all our gear, tents, and sleeping bags after a night of camping so we were slow. It took us about an hour total. We went back to [...]

We got dropped off in Sabinal at about 9:30am. There was a store closed nearby with a shelter so we assembled the bikes there. We first checked for damage. The rims had some slight kinks and wobbles they didn’t have when we left, but nothing too serious. I had some scratches on my new frame, [...]