June 19, 2026 was our third full rest day.
We had planned on a short riding day today and just one night here but a closed campground changed that. It was a luxury to have breakfast at 8, surprisingly nice in our motel. We worked out a plan for how to cross the “Great Basin”, a vast unpopulated area with great distances between any services, supplies and even water. We’re set to start out tomorrow.
Later in the morning, we rode our unloaded bikes downtown to a coffee shop, then to the Wyoming Frontier Prison museum for a tour. We joined maybe 30 people and spent over an hour exploring the cell blocks, grounds and even the gas chamber. Kind of a depressing place.
Back at the coffee shop, I wrote a postcard and talked to a local professor of Geology who had ridden the whole Great Divide. Then it was laundry and bike love time. I checked out the map again on my Salsa. The next town it shows is Atlantic City, our target for two days from now. I like how the previous places it shows, Antelope Wells, Silver City, Pie Town, Platoro and Salida are now so much more than just names on a map to me.
At 4 we met downtown at the Thai restaurant for an early dinner. Just as so many people said, the place is great. We had a full table of appetizers, then a full table of main courses, followed by desserts. We rode back and I immediately fell deeply asleep!
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