Day thirty one.

Decision day.

We didn’t go far today, only 25 miles, but we made a major decision. We want to be back in Illinois by July 24, so we won’t be going all the way to New Mexico, which means we have set out sights on Denver as our port to home. So, how to get there? We could just find some roads and cycle down the Front Range. It would probably be full of traffic though. Or, we could take the Colorado Trail, a single-track hiking and mountain biking trail that goes from Durango east to Denver. And it just so happens the trail transects our route right here.

This should give you an Idea of the altitude around here.

This looks like a lovely campsite, but there was a highway about 40 yards behind me.