I'm working on trying to get some photos up on here, trying to get them off my phone.
I made it to Las Cruces with Carrie last night. Carrie Stemrich and I met briefly before she left on a bicycle trip across the country about 64 days ago, she's going from the Philadelphia area to San Diego CA and is almost there. Check out her blog -- http://cyclewithcarrie.wordpress.com. Read her blog, she's doing everything way more extreme than I am. For Example, she's got her cooking stove made out of a soda can, she's only stayed in a hotel once so far (in two months), she's gotten probably 40 flat tires (4 flats on one day once) and right now she's bicycling along the highway in the dessert. My trip is real cushy and laid back compared to hers.
So we met the other night and camped together on top of a mountain along route 70 west of Alamogordo NM, and last night we camped next to a factory on the outskirts of Las Cruces.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Roswell NM
Here's the final story to my lost saddlebag.
I spent the day after staying with the Family that picked up and took me in at a rest stop off of 380 in Graham TX. I spent the whole next day riding out of Texas and to Roswell NM. The ride was freezing and windy. I got into Roswell late and just got a cheap motel. I was really hoping someone would call about the laptop and since my phone was dead all day I was about to see if I had any messages. I plugged in my phone and I had two hangup messages from around Graham and jacksboro TX. I called them both back, left a message and spoke to a woman who had no idea what I was talking about.
I got a call the next morning from a guy who was offered the laptop from a guy for $200 bucks. The guy on the phone said he could tell it was stolen and took a picture of my sticker on the front with my number. He gave me the sellers name number and address.
So I called the police in the area seeing what they could do and they said they could only get a warrant if the guy who called me gave a sworn statement. So then I called the number he gave me, the number of the guy that found it and is trying to sell it. He offered to sell it back to me and I told him I was on my way back to Texas.
But then I thought of calling the son of the family who took me in. Now these people already picked me up on the road, drove me around looking for it, fed me dinner, put on the phillies game for me, gave me a place to sleep and a shower. Awesome people. I call the son and ask him what happened, he took the address, name and number of the guy who wants to sell me my shit back, and told me he'd call me back.
About an hour later I get a call from a cop asking me to describe my stuff. He was called because of a disturbance at the house with my laptop. There was a fight between my friend and the guy demanding a reward for my shit. They took my friend down to the station and in about an hour I got a call from my friend saying he had everything I lost, including my checkbook, photos, $175 check and clothes! And he's going to mail it all to Portland for me. What a guy, he got an assault charge for hitting the guy in the face and was insulted when I tried to give him a reward. Halloween in Texas.
So I'm going to have my stuff waiting for me in Portland, I owe this guy everything.
I spent the day after staying with the Family that picked up and took me in at a rest stop off of 380 in Graham TX. I spent the whole next day riding out of Texas and to Roswell NM. The ride was freezing and windy. I got into Roswell late and just got a cheap motel. I was really hoping someone would call about the laptop and since my phone was dead all day I was about to see if I had any messages. I plugged in my phone and I had two hangup messages from around Graham and jacksboro TX. I called them both back, left a message and spoke to a woman who had no idea what I was talking about.
I got a call the next morning from a guy who was offered the laptop from a guy for $200 bucks. The guy on the phone said he could tell it was stolen and took a picture of my sticker on the front with my number. He gave me the sellers name number and address.
So I called the police in the area seeing what they could do and they said they could only get a warrant if the guy who called me gave a sworn statement. So then I called the number he gave me, the number of the guy that found it and is trying to sell it. He offered to sell it back to me and I told him I was on my way back to Texas.
But then I thought of calling the son of the family who took me in. Now these people already picked me up on the road, drove me around looking for it, fed me dinner, put on the phillies game for me, gave me a place to sleep and a shower. Awesome people. I call the son and ask him what happened, he took the address, name and number of the guy who wants to sell me my shit back, and told me he'd call me back.
About an hour later I get a call from a cop asking me to describe my stuff. He was called because of a disturbance at the house with my laptop. There was a fight between my friend and the guy demanding a reward for my shit. They took my friend down to the station and in about an hour I got a call from my friend saying he had everything I lost, including my checkbook, photos, $175 check and clothes! And he's going to mail it all to Portland for me. What a guy, he got an assault charge for hitting the guy in the face and was insulted when I tried to give him a reward. Halloween in Texas.
So I'm going to have my stuff waiting for me in Portland, I owe this guy everything.
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