My thoughts have been consumed by the story of Greg having his boat destroyed 200 miles offshore in the Atlantic. He's ok but the boat was lost.

Talked to a guy from Texas on the balcony overlooking the Animas river. He said a column of about 50 ravens had been circling in a column shortly before I went out. I wish I could have seen that.

View from the river facing bar stools.

It was good to run into David

David is in Pagosa Springs and is driving over to here to say hello.

In Pagosa Springs now. It was a much more pleasant ride along route 84 and 160 than I had expected. There were significant showers all around me but somehow I managed to stay largely dry.

There was little traffic and the scenery was, once again as is so often the case up here, striking.

Stopped on the side of the road. Forgot to apply sun screen.bI'm making an effort to be better about that.

Got out at the crack of 11:30. I could not sleep last night to save my life so I extended my departure time.

Sad to be leaving White Rock.

on to Durango today back to the same Holiday Inn Express which is now crazy expensive.

Windy and less hot today.

Dizzy. Taking the proactive step to pull out the cooling vest.

Suffering the bad life choices last night.

Not as hot as yesterday but it's been serious desert out to here.

I've been pondering my relationship with pain and discomfort.

Decent coffee here. Dinner last night at the adjacent grill was surprisingly nice.

Holiday Inn Express

Older Hotel.

That was one hit ride. At one point I saw 118 on the fairing thermometer. That last 40 mile road was gorgeous though. Back country. Curvy. Beautiful stark desert scenery. Really bumpy in places. Isolated