June 29

Rawlins to Walden...110 miles. Left KOA after usual breakfast and camp breaking. We went through town of Sinclair, which is home headquarters for Sinclair oil and gas. They have a large refinery there . Our route took us onto Interstate 80 for 13 miles. We met some other nice bikers in Saratoga, where we exited the Interstate and took a Gatorade break. My left knee began to hurt today so I took Motrin to help. We had just pulled out when we met a Unicyclist. Unique rider stories get passed up and down the line, like they are legends. As there were no services for the next 50 miles, we loaded up on groceries. Tired, with sore butts, we rode onward uphill. We ran into a rain, hail, and lightning storm. We watched concerned as a train separated an antelope from its fawn. We saw a Bald Eagle, red fox emerging from their den, an antelope sprinting beside us for miles, and a deer running right down Main Street. We went through a mosquito storm in the town before Walden. We checked into a motel and ran to dinner. We swaggered back to the motel and crashed!