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Tuesday 27th 2004
From
Saratoga Lake Campground to Rawlins (Key Motel)- a distance of only 42 miles.
A light day today, largely because we are trying to sort out Guy's painful
tooth. Well, sorted out it was - first of all he got soothed his gums via
a pharmacy, then he tried a dentist in Rawlins, who xrayed his tooth, gave
him a prescription for antibiotics and charged him around 60 dollars. The
relief, once he was taking the pills was rapid. Before all that happened,
though, we had a fast bike ride from Saratoga to Walcott, took cover in
a cheap cafe while a large storm raged outside, then took off at high speed
along the Interstate's hard shoulder, helped along by the passing large
lorries, stopping only to photograph a very impressive Union Pacific loco!
The storms passed to north and south, but missed us in the afternoon. They
seem to generate anti-clockwise winds (? is this correct) - because after
a light headwind in the morning we had a slight tailwind going West in the
afternoon. The Key Motel (40 dollars for two) was pleasant enough - and
came with lots of hot water via the microwave, so plenty of tea... Walked
to downtown Rawlins - some nice buildings, and the library was open late,
so we found the addresses of dentists in Lander - to fix Guy's tooth. The
landscape around here is an arid, semi-desert. The ranches may be big but
can you really grow much on them(I suppose the quantity of land makes up
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