Day 34 August 2nd: TUBING!

Day 34 - August 2nd

Tubing!

One thing that kept us motivated to haul it to Pueblo was knowing that we were going to be seeing Lee’s sister in law, Niki, having a rest day, and go tubing down the Arkansas River. All three of our motivations turned out to be worth the 113 mile day. Niki drove down from Colorado Springs to spend the day with us and had a really great day.

Niki has the river tubing down to a science now and we met her, set up our take out point, inflated the tubes, iced the drinks, and were in the water in no time. We floated down the river for a few hours and had a very relaxing afternoon. The river was flowing fairly swiftly and it was nice to be moving without having to move our legs and using any energy, a welcome switch.

Of course we could not have a rest day without stopping at a bike shop, so we went and picked up a new tire for Lee’s bike since he had worn a hole in it already, well after 1800 miles.

The rest of the day was spent seeing The Simpson's Movie and eating steaks at the Texas Roadhouse…need that protein for the Rockies. As we rolled into Pueblo, we were able to see the silhouette of the Rockies and they are impressive. I guess John Denver wasn’t lying. It is a bit intimidating since they are all around you, tower above the plains, and there really isn’t a way around them. Even if there was, we couldn’t do that, we are going straight through them.  

34 days of biking has hopefully made our legs think that these are simply molehills. We will find out starting tomorrow, Doh!

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