Day 5 - Yuma to Dateland

Bubba is starting to turn up the heat.  Yesterday we did over 60 miles and today we clocked over 70 miles.  The northerners who have not been in the saddle for quite awhile i.e. Henry are starting to feel it.  On the positive side, of the bloggers three years this was by far their best year coming to Dateland.  You say cool temperatures and rain in the desert, no way? WAY!!

So after four towns and 3 bike shops, Adrian and Henry rode into the mainstreet of Yuma, Arizona.  Fortuitously, directly across the street from one of our favorite stops on the tour, Prison Hill Brewery was the Sonoran bike shop.  Henry's devil bike had so badly malfunctioned on the worst rides of the tour just outside of Yuma that Henry actually went to the bike shop before he went to the brewery.  Kudos to the bike shop because they had no parts for sophisticated Di2 hardware, but Matt the mechanic put Henry's derailluer  back together with bolts and washers that look like the came from Steve's True Value HW store in WI.

For the second year in a row this is shaping up to be strange, but in a different way.  Adrian was trying to find some rain pants in Yuma and was told they get less than one inch of rain a year, so they had none.  Then between leaving Yuma and where we were staying at 7 miles away it poured an inch of rain on us - go figure!  Therefore we look for anywhere to hang our clothing on the rock climbing wall at the armory we where we spent the evening.

We put this picture in our blog because this is Bubba's favorite day riding through the salad bowl of America.  As the bloggers look at this picture of the salad bowl, they both agreed that they have never seen this at a Wisconsin salad bar.

On the way to Gila Bend the bloggers have dreams of Mexican six packs.  More to follow tomorrow.