The loneliest road in America isn't that lonely

Today I started on route 50: the supposed "loneliest road in America" dubbed by Lifetime Magazine. It's not lonely. There's a car every one or two minutes. Maybe it's the loneliest federal route, but yesterday's state route 21 had a car every twenty or thirty minutes.

I ended up not planning on riding with the other two since they were going to leave extremely early, but they ended up leaving late and I caught up with them pretty early. Unfortunately Georgia (the girl) flatted and I decided to move on.

The rest of the day was me playing tag with the group of 25. They would pass me and I would catch up as they regrouped (which was often). Today was naked day for the group. This meant that some of the guys went shirtless and some of the girls went sportsbra. Pretty weak stuff. Apparently last year they went full nude and got caught and charged with rape of an inanimate object. They plea bargained down to indecent exposure.

Our legal system is so messed up. What should have been a simple "Put your clothes back on" turned into diminished career prospects for several overachievers. Yeah okay America, very constructive there. You sure made society a little bit better.

Our legal system needs an enema. Badly.

Anywho, the terrain today was very difficult and I rode 63 miles with nothing but a bar along the way (which made a decent steak sandwich). Had two major climbs about 2,000' each with a valley inbetween (see pic). The winds sucked. Hot again but the cloud cover and winds made it not so bad.

In the morning 2 of the 25 were riding parallel about 50 feet behind me. A motortrike wanted to pass them but didn't want to get into the other lane even though it was completely clear. So he honked a couple of times and almost hit the rider on the left when he passed (I watched this in my rearview mirror). I gave him the tracking middle finger as he went by. He responded with the shaking fist middle finger and that was that.

I'm now in Ely. The group of 25 rests tomorrow so I may or may not see them again after my rest day.