It twas an early morning for Nate in South Fork, Colorado. With the stars still out, every time Nate shuffled the squirrel in the tree above his tent gave him some lip! Nate, after grumbling for multiple minutes, shook his fist and mumbled like a grandpa, "Simmer down now squirrel"!
The squirrel replied in haste and a home owners manor, "Hey, hey, hey! Your sleeping on my nuts"!
Nate then rolled over with a laugh and lightheartedly murmured, "I'll be off them in the morning"! This was all in the early morning of a glorious day.
We had told Joey with vigor the night before that he should wake up and go back to sleep before getting us up in the morning. This is because of Joey's insatiable appetite for waking us up at the crack of dawn. With this in mind Joey did as he was told and we got up at 8am which is extremely late for our adventurous selves. We had a wonderful morning of blueberry bagels with cream cheese, Philedelphia cream cheese. With breakfast in our tummy and a bike ride on our mind we set off for a leisure day with no big climbs and happiness in our minds. We biked for about 10 minutes before we came to a police barricade. There had been an accident up the road and they were detouring traffic around the crash down a dirt road. As we have road bikes and not dirt bikes we decided that we would not take the detour and we would wait out the blocked road under a shady birch tree.
While waiting under our shady rest nest we met a few rubberneckers who were teachers from southern Texas. One taught high school students and the other middle school students. What is impressive and inspiring about these two individuals is that they teach in one of the poorest places in America, right on the US/Mexico border. The high school teacher said 96% of his students live below the poverty line! You don't see too many teachers that are taking that school as their top pick for educating the youth of our country. Yet they both are there and doing their best to educate those who perhaps need it the most! Inspiring and thank you for your hard work!
The wait for the barricade was becoming a bit long... an hour long! So we decided, in canoe terms, to portage our bikes along the railroad tracks to just past the accident. Once we were on the open road, the wind was at our backs and pushing us to at least a steady 20-25 mph! In other words, WE WERE CRUISIN'!!
In life, there are ups, and with the ups, always come downs... 10 miles of no traffic and wind at our backs we just so happen, out of the nowhere, to get hit by head on winds. We are pretty sure head on winds is what bikers fear the most, unless your nuts and love the hardest of challenges! So it was back to drafting each other and playing switch/follow the leader the rest of the way to Alamosa. There weren't any hills, just flat and windy riding! Even though we may seem to dislike the wind, hate is a strong word, I think inside of us three bikers the challenge is of utmost gratifying at the end of the ride. Yet, when the ride against wind is over, all we can do is talk about how horrible it is; but the under glow of the conversation, the jokes, the laughs, and the last bit of energy left in us seem to ignite under such an accomplishment.
Upon lunch at our campground and a some showers, we decided to go and see Zapata Falls! It wasn't to far of a drive and we arrived there within 20 minutes and only had a 1/2 mile hike up to the falls. The place was pouring with tourists for such a tiny little mountain spring/stream/runoff/waterfall. We snapped a few photos of the Great Colorado Sand Dunes National Park from the parking lot before we trailed off up to the falls. A weird sight we'd all say, sand dunes right before a mountain, right next to a valley... The waterfall was beautiful! You had to trek a bit up the stream to get to the actual falls but once you were there, the only thing to do was put your head under that ICE ICE ICE COLD falls! Once you were under them for only mere seconds, the life poured back into you, even though it stole your breath away! A wonderful spot that we would all recommend to anyone in the area!
There was a few footbag tricks performed by Matt and I in front of spectators at the falls. A whole group of high school kids from just outside of Columbus was there cheering us on! We tossed out cards to everyone in hopes that they will follow our journey!
Now we are just kicking it back at the campground. tired, full, and slurping up the moments of life like they're the last drop of your favorite soda pop! So as always, tell your friends, tell your family, tell Nick Wusterak, and tell your homies about our adventure! Share and repost! Our hearts go out to our followers, so don't get creeped out when we meet see you!
INCASE YOU WERE WONDERING.... 1,000 MILES BIKED THUS FAR! 1/4 DONE WITH OUR JOURNEY! 2,452.58 CENTS RAISED! KEEP IT COMING FOLKS, BECAUSE WERE KEEPING IT COMING FOR YOU!!!
A quick shout out to Jay and Kay, cross country motorcycling and have done 6,000 miles so far!!! Keep it up!
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