Route 66, Day 11 by Bryan Patterson June 28, 2015 -
After the disappointment of yesterday we were hoping to make up for it
– especially the Blue Lagoon!! I wanted the kids to swim as it was the
most refreshing dip that you could have in this heat and I was miffed
that they had not had the courage to take the plunge. So we took the
van (Mark stayed back at the camp to catch up on work), and bikes back
to Santa Rosa and the Blue Lagoon. Once again James and myself were the
first in, and boy how beautiful was this? Cold, yet so refreshing and
easy to swim and dive into.
The diving cliff was anything from 8 to 15 feet high and we both showed
the kids how to do it, although James did the higher one. But I have to
give them credit they all finally made it into the pool with Sidd
showing the way. Go Sidd! Jeremy showed us all how to do a somersault
dive and land on your back – painful! We were all set to go now after a
very wonderfully cool swim. So we made our way back to where we had
finished the day before and once again did a relay with either James or
myself riding with two kids.
A good ride and on Route 66 which is always satisfying to be able to
say that. Everyone was enjoying this ride as it had very few slopes or
hills. In fact no hills at all, which was the reason for everyone
enjoying it!
We arrived back close to Tucumceri and headed for the main street to
buy dinner. It was Sidd’s turn to cook and he was going to cook chicken
burghers. Once the ingredients had been bought we made the camp site
and in fairness Sidd does a mean burgher!
Two days of below average mileage for this ride, but tomorrow we have
two very long sections. The first one which is roughly 40 miles is from
Tucumceri to just before the Texas border, which we will then drive
over as Route 66 becomes, once again, highway 40. Once into Texas we
have another 50/60 miles to ride to our camp site near Amerillo.
