Day 23…Montrose to Curecanti NRA
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We left our camping site in Montrose and headed to downtown Montrose for breakfast. We ate at the Daily Bread and it was great! Another good spot that we learned about from a local.
We had a stong tailwind all day, which is a blessing on the flats and uphills. However, on the downhills it can be a curse, sometimes changing directions and blowing you into the traffic lane.
This was probably our least inspiring day of riding for awhile, and the campsite proved to be the same. Forty mph winds forced us to set up right next to a restroom for shelter from the wind.
I toted a watermelon all the way from Montrose and enjoyed it for dinner. It was one of those small ones, not the 20 pounder type Sarah likes to take around Lake Tahoe.
I rode 53 miles today in 5 hr, 22 min at a 9.9 mph average.
-Rick