Ina cooked us another great meal with all the leftovers from the last couple days. Then Steve showed us an unmarked and imo a much better route out of the city. The Transam just follows highway 95 out of the city. However the nice side of pueblo has a beautiful bike path along the river up to the reservoir. Which connects us right back to highway 95. Unlike some of the paths I've taken in the past which have been on gravel, this one was paved the whole way so there is no reason not to take it.
The bike path dumped us out right in the middle of a hill. Once we crested the hill, wow, the Rockies were there and in our face. We had a great view for what musta been 20 miles into our future leading up to the foothills of the mountains.
The riding today was even easier than the past even with our first real hill since Missouri. That was because one of Jim's friend's, Paul, had flown up to Denver, picked up Jim's truck, and started to provide us support and gear (SAG). I only opted for him to carry my food and spare water since it was thin on this section but Jim and Keith had their bikes fully unloaded and it showed. They were riding circles around me and Jim was keeping up with Bobby with ease. The best part was when we got to the spot we decided to meet at for lunch Paul was there with 5 folding chairs setup in the shade for us.
Our final stretch into Canon(canyon?) City was rough. The terrain was no worse than this morning but the heat got bad. On top of that we finally left highway 95 that we'd been following since the middle of Kansas and the new road sucked. We got too Canon city where Jim's friend Martin met us and took us back to his house.
Martin took us up to the local attraction which was some bridge over a canyon which they wanted to charge us 26$ each to cross. We all declined so Martin took us to the next local attraction, skyline drive. That was amazing. It was a knifes edge car road up above the city. There were even dinosaur footprints up on the ridge.
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