Moriarty, NM

New Mexico is not very bike friendly. A favorite past time of motorists seems to be throwing glass bottles out of car windows. The shoulders of the roads are littered with glass and other debris. I have had four flat tires in the last two days since entering NM- I had only one flat the entire trip before now. Several other riders have had multiple flats in the last couple of days.

I am dedicated to "EFI" - a PAC Tour saying that means "every fuckin' inch" - riding the entire route. I told the sag wagon that even if I'm laying in a ditch on the side of the road half dead not to pick me up because I'm EFI! Several people have had physical injuries, problems with their bikes, or just plain tired of riding so they have taken rides in the van during parts of the tour for either all or part of a day- they are not EFI. So even if I feel like shit, I ride. We have come up with many more acronyms for the PAC Tour all of which have an 'F'' in the middle. A common one is "DFL" - dead f... last - the last rider to arrive at the hotel each day. BFH - another big f... hill, PFN - pretty f.. nice, etc. Of course, the acronyms become endless after long hours of riding under the hot sun but some have become part of our regular vocabulary.

Four more days of riding! I have to say that I am not always enthusiastic to get up and ride my bike each morning, but once you're out there for an hour or two, you get back in to it. EFI!