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 Green Valley. Today's ride is mostly downhill, although there will be one climb in Zion National Park. The bulging tyre is feeling very wobbly going down this hill so I've finally decided that I'm not going to risk the 80 mile desert section between Mesquite and Las Vegas until I've had it replaced. Today's ride won't be very long so I should have no trouble in reaching my desination, Springdale, before the shops shut. There are apparently two bike shops there although I rather get the feeling that they might just hire bikes out to tourists rather than selling spare parts. If I can't get anything there, I'm going to cancel my reservations in Mesquite and Las Vegas, have a 40 mile ride to St. George tomorrow and then spend Sunday afternoon in what I believe is the second most religious city in Utah, where there will probably be nothing to do. On Monday, I will get some new tyres and then have another short ride to Mesquite, and then go to Vegas on Tuesday. That will put me a day behind schedule which won't be ideal this late in the trip but I should still be able to cope with it; I had been planning to take four days to get from Vegas to the coast but the towns are siutated such that it could be done in three. The Mesquite and Las Vegas hotels will both have to be cancelled before four o'clock today. I might not be allowed into tonight's hotel room in Springdale to use the phone or computer until after four o'clock as that's often the earliest check-in time. It's rather convenient then that it's an hour earlier in Mesquite and Las Vegas than it is here. Last night, I was conimg up with all sorts of schemes involving leaving the bike in one town for a while while I popped off to another town on a train or bus to get a new tyre. I spent quite a while wondering why the Amtrak website wasn't giving any information about trains running along the I-15 route between St. George, Maesquite and Las Vegas. Eventually, I looked at a map of the network and found out that no passenger trains run on that line. Apparently - get this - there is no station in Las Vegas. Really. Does that seem possible? I thought that town was made by the railways. UTC Time: 15:09, Saturday 04 August 2007 Local Time: 09:09, Saturday 04 August 2007 Estimate of longitude: 112° 35' 59.76" W = -112.599933° Estimate of latitude: 37° 19' 50.14" N = 37.330594° Possible error on position estimate: 2000 metres | |