Since last time, we've finished up Colorado, powered through Utah and are now inching our way through Nevada. It's all been desert as of late, but lots of different kinds of desert- from the yellowy shrubby mountains to narrow red canyons to the big empty grayness we're in now.
Some highlights and lowlights: descending into a freezing rainstorm for ten miles on the way to Naturita, CO; getting asked to our little faux Bike and Build prom by the lovely Rachael via peanut butter jar; riding fifty miles off course with a few guys on the way to Moab, finding a desert resort in the middle of nowhere and getting a van to take us the now over a hundred miles to our destination; working with Community Rebuilds, a small affordable housing organization in Moab that builds homes using straw bales as support (apparently a legitimate sustainable building method); the day off in Moab, during which I went rafting down the Colorado River through some crazy canyons and rock formations; venturing out into the true, lonely, gray desert; and discovering that Nevada is in fact the most mountainous of the forty-eight contiguous states. It's been a pretty difficult stretch this last week- the terrain is just so monotonous now. Also, we've been camping and making our own food a lot, which is pretty fun.
The trip is really starting to wind down. Only four more days and we're in California! Crazy. Feeling a weird mix of excitement for the achievement and for returning to real life, and sadness that the adventure is almost over. I guess that's pretty normal. No service/internet for the rest of this state, so I guess my next post will be from California...
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