53 miles today from canon city to pueblo CO, total 1485. The bike shop here in pueblo is located in a run down part of town just so it can be on the route to serve the bike needs of cyclists going in both directions because by this point in the journey most bikes need some tending. I had a new chain put on my trucker and bought a chain repair tool. I also mailed home my cool weather clothes--three pounds I won't need to pedal around.
Today I rode past the federal prison in florence where many who were once atguantanamo are now held--looked foreboding from the highway.
Pueblo is an industrial town...I rode thru it on the way to the motel. Nice neighborhoods, pretty city park right in the center, deteriorated downtown. It and lewiston IDare the largest towns I will pass through.
Saw a bison herd yesterday...majestic animals, they aren't cows, two of them, as I rode past, turned and faced me and snorted and scratched the ground with their hooves. I pedalled more urgently.
Tomorrpow into the bleak expanse of eastern CO--western kansas.
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I read somewhere that when bison paw at the ground like that, it just means they're longingly imitating bicyclists, wishing they, too, could glide across the prairie.
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