October 6: The first leg of the day, phone calamity aside, was beautiful. Challenging as all, but the ranges and lakes that surrounded me were breathtaking. Green luck giants, cradling myself, the road, and, one after the other, a succession of crisp light dappled clear blue lakes. There were some houses but hardly any civilization for the first fifty miles. Just water, green, asphalt, and me.

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