March 11, 2018
Day 22
If it was easy everyone would be doing it!
Van Horn , Texas to Valentine, Tx.
Miles today 38.5 Elevation 600 ft. A steady incline .
Struggling with a 2 hour time change and a rainy, cold morning threw off our normal routine this morning. But adapt we did and after breakfast in the bus, we waited out some of the rain and left Van Horn around 11:30.It was wet and 56 degrees with a 15mph. north-east wind with gusting. Our mantra today , suck it up buttercup, you can do it, and we did and did it well. We rode highway 90 East. A nice highway with great shoulders. Along the way we saw great scenery, a yard with terrific metal art sculptures and Tim & Maggie got to see a herd of Prong-horn antelope. Of special interest is the unique and highly visited art sculpture called the Marfa-Prada. A building built to resemble a prada storefront adorned with real prada products.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prada Marfa is a permanently installed sculpture by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, situated 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northwest of Valentine, Texas, just off U.S. Highway 90 (US 90), and about 26 miles (42 km) northwest of the city of Marfa.[1] The installation was inaugurated on October 1, 2005. The artists called the work a "pop architectural land art project."[2]
Prada
Sculpture[edit]
Designed to resemble a Prada store, the building is made of "adobe bricks, plaster, paint, glass pane, aluminum frame, MDF, and carpet."[2] The installation's door is nonfunctional. On the front of the structure there are two large windows displaying actual Prada wares, shoes and handbags, picked out and provided by Miuccia Prada herself from the fall/winter 2005 collection; Prada allowed Elmgreen and Dragset to use the Prada trademark for this work.[1] The sculpture was financed by the Art Production Fund (APF) and Ballroom Marfa, a center of contemporary art and culture.
Today's ride: 39 miles (63 km)
Total: 893 miles (1,437 km)
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