May 4 - Day 116

Today was to be an easier day, again. The tour leaders said that it was off road/dirt but last year it was fairly smooth and that it should have been graded recently. Therefore, there could be some corrugation but not too bad.  Well... I would say that it had been graded recently and it had received a grade of "F" for you would be foolish to ride it.  Or "F" for failure to measure up to the minimum standards to be called a road!  :)

As you can tell it was rough going on the ride today.  The corrugation was so tough that when your front wheel went down in the valley of the corrugation you would lose sight of it.  :)   Then there was the sand, deep and unforgiving.  As your front wheel found the sand it would do some strange maneuvers.  Each one flirting with disaster.  But I survived...  barely.

Here is the best of the day:

The rising sun shone on the rocky hills to add a beauty to the already stunning landscape.

There are hills and mountains that appear to be collection of boulders from somewhere else.  The sand is prevalent but the boulders foreign.

The endless road....

It doesn't look bad in the picture but get on a bike and you would see the adventure of which I speak.  :)