We got up at 5:30 am and began biking at 7:00 am. We saw two commercial buffalo ranches and lots of wide open spaces. It was a hot day – the thermometer reached 92 degrees. We biked through Pueblo to Bob’s Bicycles – they were closed until 1:30 pm, so we ate lunch at Burrito’s Betty and had great Mexican food.
At the bike shop, we got 4 new tires and tire liners to protect against “Texas tacks” – sharp thorns that are the scourge of cyclists in this part of the country. The employees here went above and beyond the call of duty for us. Andy went to their competitor’s bike shop to pick up a tire that we needed, and the owner, Roger, gave Penny permission to run Lorraine out to the KOA campground to pick up a package that we were expecting (the KOA was 15 miles in the opposite direction of where we were headed).
After we settled into the Motel 6, Lenny wanted to go to Ruby Tuesday for dinner – it was on the other side of the highway, so we made a walking pilgrimage across the urban jungle. Walking back, a friendly young gray cat came up to us. It was wearing a harness, with a rabies tag from Corvis, New Mexico, and we were worried someone had lost their pet. The cat let Lorraine pick it up, and we walked across the parking lot to PetSmart to see if they could help. The store manager Corbrin Heyn was sympathetic and said he would feed him and keep him in the store for the night, and call the phone # on the tag to try and find the owner.
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