Day 8, Mar 29, Wickenburg AZ to Tempe AZ 73.6 miles, 440.8 miles cumul

We had a great ride in the sun from Wickenburg to the metro Phoenix area today. Becky, Phil and I made it in at 1:30, after about 6 hours of riding. The roads were mostly flat with pretty good shoulders, and then through residential areas such as Sun City and Sun City West and a bunch of similar Cities. We stopped for a burger and root beer float, and I bought 6 new tubes for the future at a bike shop. No flats today for me. Alice got one leaving the campsite this morning...

When is the last time you rode from San Diego to Phoenix? Well, we just did it. And we have now finished Map 1 of 7, which means little to my millions of readers, but we here say, "woo hoo!" Next we head up into the AZ mountains after a rest day tomorrow, and then into the mining hills of NM before heading SE to El Paso.

We are staying at the Tempe Motel 6 tonight and tomorrow night. I get to room with Phil from Boise. I know his family is reading this and they probably know what I'm going through. Our esteemed leader dished out per diem big bucks so we are on our own for dinner, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some of us may head to a spring training ballgame tomorrow. Angels play the Brewers in Tempe, so that is a possibility.

Some more than others want to ride the whole way, not getting any help. Alice did the trans-am last year, and she is not that worried about doing "EFI" again. This is a new term, but it starts with "every" and ends with "inch". I plan on doing EFI.