Tuba City, AZ to Flagstaff, AZ

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Today's Stats
Miles: 80.04
Riding Time: 5:23:00
Avg. Speed: 14.8
Max Speed: 41.9
Elevation Gain: 3975

What a difference a day makes!! We left at around 7:00 am but gained an hour when leaving the Navajo Nation and entered the rest of the state of Arizona. Arizona does not go on Daylight Saving Time. Today we had a gentle north breeze to push us along the flats for the first 40 miles. Met Rob who was riding from the Golden Gate Bridge to Jacksonville, FL. He was carrying all of his gear which weighed 70 pounds. Check out his photo below.

Road on some nice shoulders and through a few sand drifts left over from yesterday's wind storm. We could also see and smell the smoke from the forest fire burning northwest of Flagstaff.

Had one flat today. For those of you keeping score, that's one flat each for Keith and Kevin.

A nice gentle climb from about 4000 ft. to 6000 ft. on the approach to Flagstaff. The last 1200 ft. was a little steeper but brought us to tall and aromatic pine trees just north of Flagstaff.

Tonight we get a nice dinner and then watch the Lakers, hopefully, beat the Celtics in the NBA finals.

Looking forward to tomorrow's ride through Sedona to Prescott. It should be a very picturesque ride. Speaking of pictures I was able to upload photos from Tuesday, Wednesday and today. Scroll down to check them out.