Thursday - the long road to wendover

After a great nights sleep in the motel we all got up to have our free breakfast and got a bit carried away when making out own waffles, good though. Heard a funny michael Jackson quote from some guys at breakfast.....king of pop? More like the king of popping pills and children, brilliant! Our first stop was elki and to get there we had to cycle around the carlin tunnel by following a river meander on an old road and then crossing the interstate (like crossing a motorway) to continue our journey. After a scary five minutes we were back on track.

We stopped for more food and supplies in elko before the fifty mile slog to wells. This ride saw us climb up and down a fair amount of hills and by the end of it we couldn't tell whether we were going up or down or were on the flat due to the toads being so long and having no points of reference. Once in wells we stopped at another weird casino type place for some food and then chilled out watching some crap but funny American tv in a truckers rest area. It
was now 4pm and we decided to try and get to the top of the pequops mountain range (another 1500ft climb up to 7000ft) before dark and camp at the top, this would take us to 100miles for the day. After a long hard climb thru some lovely scenery (first time we saw proper grass and trees in Nevada) we arrived at the top around six. Here we met a welsh man called Morgan Bowen who grew in half an hr from where jack lives in Swansea, bot what you expect to find in on top of a mountain!

We had about an hour ot so of light remaining and made the risky decision of cycling the further thirty miles to wendover possibly in the dark so we didn't have to do them in the morning thud allowing us to have our first lie in of the trip, we will do snh thing for more sleep. The road to wendover had up hill and downhill sections with us managing to reach up to forty mph on thf downhill bits, was a pretty cool tide.

However once it got dark things got a little scary as we could see we were cycling into a lighting storm, not good if you arein biked in the middle of nowhere. We finally rolled into wendover around 9 and automatically lost sn hour as we crossed into our first newtons zone. The cycle down into wendover was pretty cool as we could see all thr mental lights of the casinos. After some food we decided to check into a motel as we were never going to find the camp ground jn thr dark in a thunder storm. In the last mile of the day jack got a puncture and had to push his bike to the motel. Now this would have been fine in thr day buy it's not fun to walk thru a dodgy area at night pushing a bike, wearing Lycra with flashing lights attached to you!

Later today we plan yo cycle out to thr salt flats and camp there for thr night and thf cycle thf remainder I'd the way across tomorrow to meet toms mate jeremy who is going to pug us up for the night.