Day 4 - February 12, 2010 - Coast to Coast
From the Stoker:

What a glorious 56 mile day. Beautiful sun and warm weather, a few rolling hills, a pass to climb which was more difficult then it should have been due to headwinds, AND a 12 mile downhill on Interstate 8 through In-ko-pah Gorge, AND many miles of flat road. Days like this sure make it easy to “pedal on”.

The very best part of the day was that wonderful downhill with unusual scenery and the feel of warm wind on our face. Of course, putting 12 miles on the odometer in a very short period of time was a treat after all the climbing we have done.

What a great job our Support Driver and her two best friends our doing to make this trip possible.

We are in El Centro, CA and would like to thank Country Life Mobile & RV Park (760-353-1040) for their support.

Impressions from the Captain:

Last night we camped with-in 2 miles of the border. The campground had to put up barriers and lock the rest rooms because of the illegals coming across the border. You could even hear helicopters during the night out searching for them. Today we kept seeing border patrol all over the place and at one point had two separate vehicles stop to see what we were doing. The local post has grown from 30 to over 500 in three years and they patrol 24/7, in jeeps, on horseback, ATV’s and on bikes. We saw them at one point dragging tires down the dirt roads parallel to the border so they could look for footprints.

We descended from the mountains into the Imperial Valley which supplies most of our produce year around. It is reclaimed desert and irrigated from the Colorado River. Really green!