Hi Jeff. I've been anticipating your tour, but I started a short tour at the same time as you started yours. When I'm on the road, I have a hard time keeping up with my own journal much less other Cycleblazer's journals. Now that I've finished reading the California portion of "Vibes," all I can say is WOW!

Not because I'm surprised you can do those mileages. (I still remember your 300-mile days.) Not because you can take so many fine pictures during those miles. Not because you have no fear of big climbs and long stretches with few services. Not even because you overcome all that crap and STILL manage to keep up a journal.

But the fact you accomplished all of the above with such a horrible chest cold is pretty amazing. If I had been reading in real time, I would have told you to visit a doctor and get some antibiotics, which is what a friend texted me to do while on my tour from Las Vegas to Phoenix. He was concerned when he read that I was coughing so hard I thought I was going to throw up. I ignored his advice, just I assume you'd have ignored mine.

I'll try to catch up on the rest of your journal in the next couple days. Looking at the posts ahead, I'm assuming you've gotten through the coughing fits, with or without antibiotics.

I'm digging the vibes.

Teravail Sparwood 29 x 2.2.

With tubes with Stan's Sealant inserted.

This begs one to ask what tires you are running. ??

Was theee a matching washer? And where do the quarters go?

Great shot - the blue water bottles nicely complement the sky

This looks like a sign you would see on the big island!

I was chatting with one of the bank tellers. It came up that they lived in Ely for a number of years. Her husband worked at the mine. She said they liked it there, but moved when the kids got old enough to ask about the brothel buildings. She said there were more brothels in Ely than churches. This conversation was decades ago. Perhaps there are now more churches, although I did just ask google about brothels in Ely, and there are a few listed.

I think maybe the stinkers are never happy... A guy in my mammalogy class back in the late 60s tried to capture one by throwing his leather jacket over it... Shredded. They are solitary and interact with others very sparingly.

https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2015/10/25/the-american-badger-a-very-tenacious-animal/

Yeah, agreed.

I walked around Ely looking for the theater, but then it started to pour down rain, and I had to hurry back to my room.

Ely seemed like a lively place.

Haha.

No.

He was not happy with my presence there, hahaha.

I'd never seen one before!

I think there was a dirt road leading off to somewhere or other.