Day-17

July 23, 2006

Leaving Oklahoma for New Mexico & Colorado...

Today we rode through the last part of Oklahoma through fields of Sunflowers and rutty dirt roads. When we crossed into New Mexico, it seemed as if the State Line was drawn out from nature as the environment seemed to change right at the state line. New Mexico was full of great riding. There are lots of Antelope, Grey Fox, and Cattle. New Mexico is full of red rock and sweeping dirt roads. The trail took us into a valley between hillsides… at the end of New Mexico, the trail lead us to a great switch back section climbing a mesa into Colorado. The switchback trail was some of the most fun riding we’d had on the Trans-Am Trail since we started in Tennessee. It was full of jumps and rocks and ruts and 180-degree turns on the side of this mesa.

We crossed the state line of Colorado and came into very small town named Branson. We were absolutely starving when we got to Branson. Our hope was that we’d find some food from some kind of shop, but there was no store in sight. That’s when we ran into Frank, a kind old man who offered us cookies and apples for free. We sat down with him at a picnic bench enjoyed the surroundings as he gave us some local history and some personal history. It was great to relax and chat for a while.

There was a small prison building left over from the wild west days that Steven and I climbed into. Then we got back on the bikes and rode the last 40 miles into Trinidad Colorado.

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