DAY 60 - Silver City here we come

The day started with a 4.5km steep climb - not time to warm up the legs so it was brutal at 1st.
After another 10km of steep ups & downs we encountered an even bumpier & steeper descent into Rocky canyon, this was but far the roughest section of the route we have ridden so far. But would have been awesome downhill on a full suspension unloaded.
Unfortunately what goes down on this route ALWAYS goes back up!! lucky the extremely steep climb out was not as bad as the down hill we had just experienced.
From the top we dropped to another continental divide crossing & had then had a nice rolling descent for 20km down to a town called Mimbres where we were heading for a late lunch, we only just managed to get into the only cafe for lunch as they closed at 2pm & we arrived at 1:30 - Phew.
After a belly full of burgers & fries ( the great USA staple diet) we knew we had another 40km to get to Silver City & a couple of days off.
The road out of Mimbres was cruel especially with a belly full! We had 15km of hills ahead arriving at the sealed part of the day at a HUGE mine - Incredible!
Once again the wind was not in our favour.
We all decided that this is due to out discussion several night ago about Gods belly button & now we are being punished with daily strong gusty head winds!
We now have a packed on with the 4 of us - not to discuss belly buttons or god again...
We limped very slowly into Silver City which was on a 4 lane, very busy highway, with very big rolling hills the entire way to town.
Allan's friends Charlie & Dave have arrived also to escort Alan to the boarder & then give him a ride back to California.
We all checked into the 1st motel we found heading into town & enjoyed hot showers!
Went out for dinner & a few quiets - sleep!
Rest day tomorrow - lovely!

DISTANCE: 90.27km
AVERAGE: 14.4km
RIDE TIME: 6.13hrs
ASCEND: 1235mtrs