We woke up pretty early and were excited because we knew we were going to have blueberry pancakes, and boy were they yummy! We each took a nice hot shower and prepared ourselves to go back out in the cold. Once we were all packed and had all our warm gear on, we said our goodbyes to Eddy and got on our way again. It was so nice and warm inside that we could have easily stayed there for another day, but we knew we had to keep moving. After about 7 miles of riding, we met a cyclist who was out for a ride. He was nice enough to take our picture with the mountains in the background for us since my tripod was broken. I had emailed the gorillapod company yesterday about the broken tripod since I knew there was some kind of warranty on it, and they had already emailed me back. It was great because the guy who e-mailed had done a tour in the 70s and understood how we would need to have a replacement mailed general delivery somewhere along our route. I was so relieved that a new one would be on it's way soon. When we made it to the town of Granby there was a couple walking down the sidewalk who stopped to ask us about our trip. It is always so nice when people are interested in what we are doing! They offered for us to stay at their place, which we would have gladly taken the offer had we not just started and only had 11 miles. As we continued on there was a nice picnic area not to far out of Granby. Although it was a little early miles wise to stop to eat we opted to stop because we didn't know if there would be anything like this in the next town. After cooking up some of the Ramen that Eddy had bought for us at the store yesterday we continued on. Although it was chilly, it was sunny, so the ride wasn't bad. For most of the ride we were riding up and down rolling hills. In Hot Sulphur Springs, we stopped at the visitor center/museum to use the bathroom and Joe found out that there are 56 mountains over 14,000 feet just in CO, which I thought was pretty neat! After riding in a bit of a head wind for most of the day, we made it to Kremmling. We filled up on water at Subway and then decided to eat before leaving town. It was still pretty chilly outside which made us not want to cook, so we ended up having some chicken and potato logs from the deli at the grocery store. It sure was tasty! Since we knew we had a lot of climbing to do tomorrow, we decided to go a little further. About 6 miles out of town there was a recreation area/campground, which worked out perfect because like it SD, there was fencing all along the road again, which would have made it hard to camp. We found a nice camp spot that had fence that helped block the wind. There were bathrooms with the vault toilets again and working electric, just no running water because it might have been too early in the season. Once the tent was all set up we enjoyed the cookies that were given to us at subway yesterday. Since we already had dinner we went to bed pretty early, probably around 8. I fell right asleep because I was still feeling really tired, probably from the elevation. We rode 47.40 miles today and were still at an elevation of around 7,300 feet.
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