Yesterday Daniel's shifter broke again, right where the patch weld was. The guy back in Branson told us that he couldn't weld very well. We made it to the town of La Veta and found a real welder after only three stops, one at the forestry maintenance garage, two at a garage,and finally at the golf course maintenance building. He tacked it in place, checked it for fit, welded the bead, and then let it air cool instead of quenching it. It should last.

we made it to Salida before dark it was about 250 mile day through the mountains. My foot peg on the left side finally came of I patched it in western arkansas. it came off during a power slide turn and I lost it the bike fell over on the left side me underneath again. I managed to miss a barbed wire fence by a couple of feet, and was able to slide my foot out of my boot and pick the bike up.

After arriving in Salida we found it hard to find a place to stay all of the campgrounds were RV only, and the parks we found had signs forbidding camping. Daniel remembered seeing a hostel sign in town so we went back and stayed there for $18. The hostel was really cool, several fellow travelers, 6 total from Florida. We had river rafters and hikers as roommates it was a bunk house setting. we stayed up late telling travel stories.

We met a guy riding his bicycle from VA to San Francisco CA, and you thought we were crazy.