Distance: 87 avg: 11.6
So yesterday’s post was mostly removed due to bugs in the wordpress for iPhone app. While the app is great when it works I have lost numerous posts and have had to rewrite them. Fucking pain.
Today I did another long day. I woke up cow-free and headed over to Lamont for breakfast. I went into Grandma’s Cafe and ordered some biscuits and gravy. The waitress there was somewhat amiable, and we chatted and watched the price is right. Is it obvious to anyone else that Drew Carey hates his life? We talked about the towns around. I was off to Rawlins, to which she replied she never goes to, doesn’t like the place. She goes to Casper which is bigger. It has a Sam’s Club and two Wal-marts. Interesting gauge for measuring the size of a town.
I headed onward through wyoming’s buttes, and hit Rawlins, aka the Armpit of Wyoming. Somehow these rednecks had cash, which was spent on their car stereos and rims, not on their cars. It became clear where Rawlins got it’s distinctive economy and it’s smell: Sinclair.
Sinclair is the town built around the Sinclair oil refinery. If you’ve ever been to a Sinclair gas station with the green dinosaur logo, this is the place the gas comes from. I passed this massive facility with plumes of fire coming out of vents and wondered if there was some kind of purpose in the minds of the people who made my cycling map.
Well I had a big headache after passing the oil refinery, but I kept going and pushed on to Saratoga. It took three hours to do the final 25 miles, uphill and against the wind for most of it. I’m truly exhausted, and pulled my quad a tad., Tomorrow’s probably going to be a rest day.
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7 responses to “Day 34: Saratoga”
remenber the ben gay or activon. Sue said the activon is better I,m gonna try it . love MOMXXXOOOXXX
Yes, mom, I’ll go buy some in a bit. Gawd, you’re like, totally embarassing me in front of the whole internet! 😉
Listen to your mother Chris!
Fruit & nut medley looks awsome! Miss you on our rides!
Mac
As a WY guy myself I can say that the waitress is right. We don’t got to Rawlins cause it’s gross (remember how I also called it the armpit of WY?) and that we do indeed gauge city populations by number of Walmarts. Casper and Cheyenne are the 2 largest towns with a population of 2 Walmarts each.
That’s our new segment: Little Known Wyoming Facts. Other fun facts: ‘panniers’ is pronounced ‘pinners’ by Wyomingans. Also, wyomingans have no specific way of referring to themselves. Wyomans, wyomingans, wyomers, or just Yomees, it’s all good!
Truly, it wasn’t a great place, but the worst parts of WY is still better than parts of CO I’ve hit. I guess I couldve wowed the waitress by saying that we’ve got like TEN walmarts. But that’s just depressing because it might be true. 😛