When I was getting ready to leave Mojave the wind was blowing hard and it knocked my bike over and broke the rear view mirror.
Heading out of Mojave I picked up a tailwind again and I was going 24 mph on flat road.
I had a flat tire and a guy who owned a bike shop stopped and offered to help. I said ‘ok’ and the guy basically changed my tube for me.
My host in Barstow was named Gary. When I got to Barstow I bought another inner tube and I ate at Del Taco and figured out how to get to Gary’s house.
Gary was a kind host. He had done a bike trip from Prudhoe Bay to Idaho 15 years before my trip. We showed each other pictures from our bike trips and we had some of the exact same pictures.
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| Zach's mission house. |
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| Long straight road. |
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| Riding in the sun. |
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| A truck carrying a giant wing. |
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| Chuck from Main Street Bicycle in Illinois changed my flat for me. |
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| Entering Barstow. |
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| American flags flying. |
