Author Archives: Morgan McCune

Goodbye, Texas, and hello The Land of Enchantment!! AKA New Mexico! Amazing to have crossed such a HUGE state. We rode into Texas January 3rd. How long do you have to be in a state before you LIVE there? I think we pretty much can say we were Texans for a stint. Our ride todayContinue reading “Day 45 – April 9th”

Holy cow. Ohhhh man. We had wind today. SO much wind. We left our campsite around 9am and biked close to 8 hours to go just over 50 miles. This was with no long food breaks and a LOT of grinding away in slow gears. A wise man once said (my dad, Trace McCune 😉),Continue reading “Day 44 – April 8th”

Goodbye dear Guadalupe and El Capitain! What a rare treat to camp two nights in the same spot. I have to agree with Ryan, it was starting to feel like home. We took off after a nice morning complete with push-ups, pull-ups, planks, and plenty of stretching. The first seven miles FLEW by as weContinue reading “Day 43 – April 7th”

Hellooooo, Texas! We see you! Hiking Guadalupe peak was a fun excursion where we saw many interesting plants and critters including Douglas Fir trees, Blue Agave, interesting lichen and moss, and plenty of beetles and lizards. We were literally the highest people in Texas today…. except for people in airplanes. Let me rephrase. We wereContinue reading “Rest Day: on top of Texas!”

Early rising makes for a quick day! We got going at 9am and made it to our destination by 3:30pm, right at the base of Guadalupe Peak, Texas’ highest mountain at 8,749ft. Ryan listened to the entire Fahrenheit 451 today as an audio book and I painted a big rock! This is El Capitain, justContinue reading “Day 42 – April 5th”

We fell asleep last night halfway through watching The Lion King and slept close to 11 hours!! Hello refreshed body and mind 😊 After waking up, we browsed some high fashion at the Prada store and decided high heels wouldn’t be good right now, so we hit the road for Van Horn, 35ish miles away.Continue reading “Day 41 – April 4th”

An early start today gave us a nice fresh 20 mile run from Alpine to Marfa before the afternoon. My legs felt very fresh, probably from the gigantic meal we had at McDonalds the night before! We had a lunch of ramen, milk, wheat thins, and jerky while restocking at Dollar General in Marfa andContinue reading “Day 40 – April 3rd”

THANK YOU Angelo and Diane!!!! What are the chances, that we wake up outside of Marathon, Texas, a town so secluded it’s a class one stargazing site, and we meet two other touring cyclists headed East who tip us off about Angelo, a bike guru living in Marathon, then that we find him by askingContinue reading “Day 39 – April 2nd”

We woke up in the Outback Oasis Motel which left us full and well rested. To any other cyclists going through Sanderson, we highly recommend! The owners Roy and Ruth were very kind and even extended our checkout time and let Ryan use their awesome workshop for some bike maintenance. Ryan tried to true hisContinue reading “Day 38 – April 1st”

We did it!!! We made it from Comstock to Sanderson, an 88 mile stretch with no available commercial water stops. Thank you to the kind woman in Dryden (the name is appropriate) who let us use her well water when we realized we had undershot it just a tiny bit. We have learned we shouldContinue reading “Day 37 – March 31st”