Day 5: Blythe to Salome

ARIZONA: Winter is at 6am, Spring starts at 10am, Summer is at 2pm, and Fall starts around 4:30ish.

How many cyclists out there can say they’ve ridden clear across California? Sure, it may be a little easier going west to east as opposed to north to south, but nonetheless crossing the border into Arizona was reason to celebrate. The Colorado River rolled on underneath us as we laid tread on the first of seven state lines this journey will require us to cross.

Aside from the natural beauty, the ruins from more prosperous decades past gave us plenty to look at. The whole scene felt a bit post-apocalyptic as we approached Salome… the town “where she danced” (a reference to a 1945 western drama loosely based on the life of Lola Montez).

Happy to have completed a nearly 3,000’ day, we joined for the weekly fish fry at the Stanford Inn and called it a night.