This iPhone is pretty weird! Right now we’re huddled in our tent behind a row of trees at a park by the highscool in Idalia, CO. It’s nowhere town in Eastern Colorado amidst endless farmland, and here we are typing a blog.

Our last blog was in Denver. We liked Denver so much we ended up staying there three nights. One night in a hotel, one with a wonderful warm showers host (Audrey), and one night with Marcus, a fellow cycle tourist who went cross country last year; when Marcus saw us on the street with our bags he offered us a place to stay.

When we finally left Denver after a morning of cute dog, local kambucha, homemade cup cakes and shots of oregeno oil all inside the bike shop Salvagetti, it seemed like we were starting the tour all over again. With fresh legs and replenished optimism we treked out into farmland that we didn’t even think existed in Colorado.

We spent that day battling a head wind to get out of Denvers strange half built suburbs. We spent that night at a truck stop; can’t pass up running water and free bathrooms.

We set off the next day to more wind and the rolling hills Marcus warned us about. More of a problem was the lack of stops to get water we encountered for about 50 miles that day.

We set up our tent off a dirt road that lead south from Highway 36. It had heavy traffic congestion though let me tell you! Two cars went by over the course of about 10 hours. Mac ‘n Cheese, some cards and we were asleep at sunset.

The next morning’s sunrise was beautiful, but it turned into a cold, overcast day until the evening. We headed to Alton, CO in hopes of a hot breakfast, but there was only a gas station and convienence store, both of which were closed. In hopes that Cope, CO would turn out to have something, we headed off.

Cope at least had running water and another convient store that was open by the time we got there, no breakfast though. A customer told us Idalia, CO had a resturaunt but it closed at 2 and we were to far to make it.

So here we are in Colorado - camping out for breakfast… who would have guessed.