South-East Colorado

Tuesday

Pueblo City to Ordway: Mileage 50: riding time 4:00

Slept in 'till 8:00 and headed east toward Ordway. There is nothing in this part of Colorado other than prisons, a leading employer of the region. The roads are straight and rolling and I had to deal with a wind from the SE as I headed due East.

Ordway is a very small town with a low standard of living: the price of milkshakes has fallen from $4.50 to $1.99. The problem is finding tolerable food. People clearly lack the funds to eat out and there is no other traffic in the town. A real downer, to say the least. I stayed in a nice old hotel and tried a new cough fighting strategy - it worked!