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Thursday 5th August 2004
From
Ennis Camper Corner to Dillon, Sacajawea Motel - 70 miles on route. After
breakfast in a cheap but tasty cafe on main street, and a short while updating
web pages, we headed out up the 2000 foot climb to Virginia City. This was
at times steep, but a nice steady climb and with excellent views. Downhill
a little bit to Virginia City, which is a museum piece and very interesting.
Visited library - very pleasant - and checked email. Virginia City is a
bit limited on food for cyclists - in the sense of cheap and rapid carbs,
so we pushed on and on, until we reached Alder where a cheap convenience
store solved our problem. Virginia City is a gold rush town, as most seem
to be round here. Got to Sheridan, where we hoped to find the bookshop,
coffee place and internet cafe mentioned by a transAm person in 1998 (in
their now disappeared web diary), but it had gone the way of the Dodo. Sad.
There was a bakery with very nice apple and cinnamon pastries though! In
Sheridan we watched as a young man locked himself out of the car, while
his girlfriend (?) said 'What have you done?!' . We noticed that her t-shirt
said 'I love nerds'. Well, a very understandable feeling, but clearly there
are limitations. A policeman saved the day with a quick lesson in breaking
into cars. Then on to Two Bridges, where we sheltered in the restrooms from
a large rainstorm, then on to Dillon, and a road being rebuilt. Found a
cheap motel - Sacajawea, as we got into Dillon (32.10 dollars). After a
brief visit to Safeway's down the road from the motel, we settled down with
a huge heap of food. Managed to find the BBC World News on the TV, which
was nice - most channels are very tedious and unwatchable, with endless
adverts and cheezy presenters. As is common in the USA , more choice means
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