Moriarty

Day 10 Moriarty, NM - Santa Rosa, NM
Miles -124 (with 30 mph tail wind)
Leeping deer along the highway - 8
Flat tires - 2 - Neil on his bike and screw found in tire of Pathfinder

Unbelievable, my alarm woke me up. Normally, my body clock wakes me up, but not this morning. We still had plenty of time to repack and get our luggage out by the truck in time for Glenn to load stuff up.

For breakfast, we went to Lisa's Cafe at a local truck stock. The Tomba car had a nail in its tire, so this was a "flat tire" waiting to happen. They were at the tire repair shop at 7am as they opened up for the repair.

The cyclists were able to get to ready and leave after a good breakfast and then they were on their way. It was a change of plans instead of cycling onto Hiway 40, they would cycle south and then east and then north east back to Santa Rosa. The road did not have a lot of heavy traffic. Then when they turned the corner, they were "flying" with a tail wind. It was very very windy.

When we were just 10 minutes away from the hotel, Neal had a flat tire. I texted my dad and sent a photo that said "flat". And 5 minutes later, he said that he went to Google earth and said he saw a church with a red roof and that was the same one as in my photo I texted to him.

About 20 minutes down the road, Jeff got a phone call that said there was a wallet with money and credit card left in the room. At first we were told to continue on, then we were told to turn around and go back. So, that's what we did. But we were able to go the speed limit. We got back to the hotel and picked up the wallet, then sped down the 2 lane road to catch up with the cyclists.

Glenn couldn't find one of his bungee cord, so we made do with what we had. And all of a sudden when we passed an 18 wheeler, something comes flying out of the windshield. Glenn immediately stopped and he realized it was 2 of Wes's gloves that had slid through the top of the front bucket. We strolled along the Hiway and found the 2 gloves. Then as we drove closer to catch up with everyone, all of a sudden the lid flew off. Yickes. Glenn corrected that, and he then stole a bungee cord from Jeff's sleeping bag for his blue box.

Everyone kinda made sandwiches at 11am at the "pit stop". I didn't eat any thing. It was very very windy at this location, which was near a windmill farm. Huge white windmills blowing.

I feel asleep for 45 minutes as we headed eastward. We made pit stop at the local grocery gas station. Then we continued on.

Because it was so windy, the guys were making 20-30 mph. They were flying. And also we arrived in our hotel room at 4pm instead of 8pm. There was a hamburger event at the Santa Rosa town square - so we joined along. It was a promotion to make families and children aware of nutritions and to make better choices in their food and diet. We talked with several folks. Neil was able to talk and visit with a gal named Sarah. I believe she is in charge of this state wide funded program. I didn't hear the conversation, because Glenn and I were watching the bikes. Sure don't what them stollen.

After checking into the hotel and getting our room assignment, we went to the grocery store and to fill up our tank. We got some food for the bikers, plus we got some call from Neal that he needed some medication. There was no pharmacy in this small town grocery store, but we did find one thing he wanted. We also did a letterbox. One was located at the library, which was under the book drop off. Glenn and I returned the magnetic letterbox.

We had dinner with Jeff and Wes down the street. Now to rest up for tomorrow's day.Read more