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Aw, that's too bad :(
According to their website, it's for sale: https://pieoneer.com/hours/
Maybe someone could make a go of it.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1470429/nm-loses-an-institution-pie-lady-moving-on-pieoneer-closed.html
The cafe has now closed, a victim of COVID. I never got to eat pie there . . .
I definitely think the umbrella was worth taking. The foldable camp chairs we carried were also useful several times. But on my tours since this one, I've carried less stuff, and I don't need the front panniers anymore.
3 years agoI purchased an umbrella to use on the Utah/Grand Canyon trip, but was shamed out of taking it. I should have been more like Joy!
3 years agoNice shot of the tiger swallowtail!
https://peecnature.org/butterflies-of-new-mexico/swallowtails-papilionidae/
Good ID. Soaptree yucca. Interesting and wide ranging.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_elata
Male Texas horned lizard.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/73905-Phrynosoma-cornutum
Greater short horned lizard. Nice shot!
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/36315-Phrynosoma-hernandesi/browse_photos
Sulphur or sulfur?
In my last year at school in 1960 we were taught chemistry by an American Marist brother who insisted that it was spelt with an f and not the British way with a ph.
Discuss?
Yeah, that was a nice section of the route - a nice break from the super-arid New Mexico desert.
4 years agoThanks Scott. The next day was...not so great. One day in the dry desert is apparently enough for me, haha.
4 years agoWonderful image, like many on this page. A great day indeed.
4 years agoLike Joy, one of my favorite sounds is the wind blowing through the pine trees--or the wind blowing through ANY kinds of trees. Or the wind blowing through tall grasses, for that matter.
4 years agoHi Ron,
Yes, I've been trying intermittently to copy our Divide journal from Medium, where I originally created it during the tour, over to CycleBlaze. Unfortunately it's very cumbersome to copy the content from Medium. I haven't found a way to automate the process, and I've been busy with other things, so I've barely got any of it done. I'll leave it on Medium until I get it copied over here.
Joy and I were on CGoaB for several years, although Joy quit interacting with it long before I stopped. In fact, I quit (or rather, was "fired" from) CGoaB during our Divide tour in 2016. Virtually all our journals are here now.
The Great Divide route is extremely challenging - definitely the hardest thing I've attempted. We only did about half of it, the New Mexico and Colorado portions, before we decided to make our own route, and head to the North Shore of Lake Superior instead. That was mostly pavement and some gravel roads, and was much easier and more like a "normal" bike tour.
I don't want to scare you off the route - there's awesome scenery and a sense of isolation you won't get on other bike routes - but it was a little too much for me, and I missed eating pizza and ice cream in small towns at the end of each day. There's not much of that on the Divide, ha! It's more like backpacking.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do this summer,
Jeff
How are your pie baking skills?
3 years agoSecret - the pies pies use lard in the crust - cholesterol be damned! I'm bing reading your journal as we speak . . . .
Kelly