Today started off hot, and wasn't going to get any better. People were expecting to ride along the Colorado, right along the California border, but that ended up not happening. Casey and I rode quickly trying to beat the heat. Lunch was at Lake Havasu at a gas station. We ate quickly, filled up and took off. We passed signs for the London Bridge and I remembered reading about how the original London Bridge had been moved somewhere in America. Casey didn't believe me, so we stopped checked Wikipedia, confirmed my thoughts and grabbed a couple pictures.
The rest of the day was hot. We were in the desert going up and over hills. We got to a good second lunch stop, but were way ahead of the trailer. We decided we had enough water to make it the last 20 or so miles, so we just stopped for a couple snacks before proceeding on. I yet again got another flat. Fortunately I found the source, and removed it. We followed the cue sheet to where our campsite was supposed to be, but it was no where to be found. We went to a restaurant and got some food and prepared to wait there for a while until other people started showing up.
Not too long later, Sam showed up. She was set on finding someone with a boat and getting them to give us a ride. She walked to the dock/bar and went up to the first people she saw and sure enough they agreed to take us out. Things turned bad pretty soon. Rather than having a nice speed boat, they had a pontoon they rented for the weekend and clearly had no idea how to drive. We rode down to some sandbar and hung out there for a while. By the time the boat-drivers decided to leave, they were all plenty intoxicated. The ride back was not the most exciting, we stopped for gas and it took them at least 5 minutes to find where the inlet was. When it came time to dock and drop us off, they couldn't maneuver the boat into the space and ended in a heated family argument. I was glad to get off of there and get to our campsite. Turns out we were 2 or 3 miles away still.
Since we had to get up way early tomorrow(3:30) we decided to not use tents and just sleep on the ground. That made setting up easy!. Dinner was provided by an almost-alum(he signed up but couldn't ride due to getting a full time job). He took us to a restaurant within the campgrounds. Apparently they focus on serving drinks to boaters rather than dinner, as their menu had maybe 20 items on it and they ended up running out of pasta for one person. We went to bed as early as we could because we were getting up way early to beat as much heat on our longest ride of the trip!
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