Random thoughts...

We spend a lot of time on the bikes....between 6 and 8 hours, depending on the terrain. During this time, sooooo many things cross our minds. You can try to block out the random brain-thoughts with music, but there isn't a lot that can suppress an active brain on the open road. There isn't really a "story" in this blog, but I thought it would be fun to try to catalog as many of those random thoughts as possible, and list them. They really are....strange.

But before that, I'd like to give a giant shout-out to Don, Nicole and Mitch...a couple of our favorite people from this trip. They adopted us for the day! We all hiked back to a Lower Calf Creek Falls waterfall (and took some awesome and hilarious pictures). Then they went completely out of their way to take us to our hotel, and in the mean time, they bought our dinner! You guys were so much fun, and I'm glad we're still in touch!

Anyway, bring on the random thoughts, some related to cycling, some not:

• Why, out of all the different parts of my body that are sore, do my THUMBS hurt the most?
• How am I going to get rid of these ridiculous tan lines?
• Why can I only remember half of the Quadratic Equation? My math teachers would be so disappointed.
• Road kill or piece of tire? Road kill? Or tire? Road kill. No! Tire. Whew....tire. (this is a little game I like to play when you see something on the road in the distance and don't know what it is. It happens a LOT, and I'm getting better).
• How are the soles of my shoes falling off? They're on the pedals of the bike 90% of the day. I'll have to use Dad's fix-it method...duct tape.
• Ohhh, a penny!
• Colorado smells nice.
• "Free credit report dot com/Tell your friends, tell your dad, tell your mom/We've been singin' this song since we first showed up with our pirate hats on".....ugh, commercial jingles...
• When I hear a vehicle behind us, I try to figure out what kind it is by how the engine sounds. I'm 100% on 18-wheelers so far. Everything else, not so much.
• I think I would have made a good outlaw.
• I wish I could figure out how to reset the time on my watch. That way I wouldn't have to subtract 2 hours every time I try to figure out what the time is.
• Oh, man. My sunglass frames are broken. I'll have to use Dad's fix-it method...duct tape.
• On ER, when Doug Ross finds out that Carol is pregnant with his twins, why doesn't he come back?
• When will we see a town with more than 1,000 people?
• Will I live long enough to witness Bethany actually eating a vegetable? On purpose?
• It's probably not a wise decision to fly down a hill at 45 mph with only what essentially amounts to a tiny styrofoam cap on your head for protection.
• I have to use the restroom. And we're 30 miles from anything in either direction. Help.
• I wonder what passing motorists are thinking: "They are CRAZY", or "What a great idea. I might do that some day", or "50 points for the blonde one with the pigtails"?
• Again, with the passing motorists. When they see us in the middle of nowhere, do they worry even a tiny bit about us? Why don't they offer water? Why don't they offer a ride? Not that we'd take it, I'm just saying. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? So far the only ones to offer water are foreign. Figures. Americans are all "they're dumb, they deserve what they get".
• Why do I harbor such fiery hatred for people in vehicles?
• Why don't any of the motels have people working at the front desk?
• When passing motorcyclists wave, are they mocking us?
• Bethany's handlebars have some cuts in them. I'll have to use Dad's fix-it method....duct tape.
• The "Welcome to Utah" and "Welcome to Colorado" signs are 50 yards apart. Sooooo, what is that land in between?
• There are a ton of washers/bolts/nuts/nails on this road. Dad would have a field day.
• Can I build a log cabin in Miami?
• I wonder when the season premiere of Bones is scheduled.
• Dear God, please don't let the 18-wheeler hit us. We're not that good at staying on the shoulder...
• How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
• Why is this map taking us into the middle of nowhere with roads that don't have a shoulder? Safe? NO.
• Will I ever be able to pass through a tiny tiny town and not think of Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
• That root beer did NOT settle well.
• How can I work soooooo hard all day on the bike, and I'm still gaining weight?
• On a related note, why don't my legs look any different?
• Why, at the end of a perfectly good downhill, is there always an uphill?
• Would those people mind if we asked to ride their horses?
• Green is definitely my new favorite color.
• I wonder which one of us is adopted. I would guess me. Bethany would agree. We can't possibly be related.
• On an uphill: From 1 to 10, this rates a 14.35 on the "This is the Worst Idea Ever" scale.
• On a downhill: Hey, this isn't so bad!
• I smell burnt skin. Is that me?
• I wonder what I did with my passport? I should find that when I get home.
• Does hay have any nutritional value for humans? Might be good to know, just in case we get in some trouble one day.
• Is Bethany more miserable now, or will she be more miserable when she has to sleep in my apartment with all of the cats?
• Canyon is a weird word.

Here is what Bethany said she thinks about all day on the bike:

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Anyway, we'll come back with a good story for the next blog, but this will have to hold until then. I'm sure we'll have some good stuff coming out of the Rockies!

And please comment! We looooooove reading the things you have to say, and it makes it more fun to write:)