Day 49 – Ohio City, CO
Posted by Kiki | Colorado | Posted on July 13th, 2009
Monday, July 13th – Ohio City, CO
Today we’re just resting and hanging out in Ohio City, CO… it’s like vacation. We don’t have to wake up until we wake up naturally – we can eat a real breakfast, and don’t have any set plans. Today’s the last day of this style of vacation. Chase promises we can start riding tomorrow, haha:) I’m completely okay with doing whatever since I’ve got a little more flexibility than he does, but we’ll still make it to San Francisco in time for him to get back to school and for me to come back to work.
I don’t miss work though (no offense). I am sort of dreading the idea of returning to work – it’ll probably be difficult since I haven’t spent 8 hours a day staring at a computer in quite some time. And I’m not used to the idea of having to sit at a desk, but I suppose all of that will come back to me come September when I’m back home.
Meanwhile, we’re trying to figure out our route across Utah and Nevada to California. Our tentative idea is something along these lines: click for map. We’d like to hitch-hike (even though it’s illegal) in Utah to avoid spending so many days biking to go off route… to hitch a ride to some of the national parks like Canyonlands and The Arches. Plus I have incentive for anyone taking us – free entrance into the parks with my National Parks Pass. So that’s our hope anyway, but we’ll have to be careful and strategic with our hitch-hiking… so we don’t get arrested! We’re also hoping to see Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado near Durango and Zion National Park in Utah and ride through Yosemite National Park in California. We’ll see – it’s a long ways we still have to go… approximately 1,500 or 1,700 if we detour to Las Vegas. Either way, we’ll see some nice parks along the way, I think!
For now, I have to sign off and get back to relaxing in the boonies of Ohio City, Colorado and hopefully getting my dirt biking lesson here shortly!
My dirtbike lesson
Tomorrow, I promise – we’ll start biking again. Who knows where our destination will be, maybe Cimmaron or Montrose. It’ll be 70-90 miles depending… but we’ll see how we feel after all our rest time.
Fun riding a dirtbike in Ohio City, Colorado
I’ve added a few videos to http://www.youtube.com/jmukikster as well as some more photos to the album, Colorado.