I crossed over from Colorado to Wyoming today! All excited to see the Welcome sign, and it’s missing off its posts.😲🤔 Still could only whisper until this evening my voice has started crackling back. There is a City Hot Springs in Saratoga, the rest of the team went this afternoon plus late tonight. I went straight after arriving and none of us but Tom got to bed much before midnight.🤭 Today was head to the pavement. I miscalculated my mileage plus an extra ride from Camp to Hot Springs and back. It gave me a personal best day mileage wise, but the big deal was battery. I fought headwinds much of the day, riding in my lowest assist level, often uphill (1 pass & 1 big mtn) and often at only about 6 mph. I wanted to stop for lunch but didn’t dare because I kept re-calculating my remaining miles and daylight, so just one quick stop for bathroom & pick up vapor rub.😊. [Didn’t know that when I skipped breakfast😣] I rode 6:30a.m. to 8:15p.m. to camp, 14 hours straight. My ride was through moose and bear country, including the Arapaho Natl Forest, but I really hardly saw anything, my face was to the ground and watching my battery life, as I listened more to the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I made it to camp with supposedly 9 miles’ worth of battery remaining, but it ran out on my way back to town. Thankfully Kathy got my message and brought the one I had thrown on the charger before leaving for the Hot Springs. It was pitch black going back, I have no headlamp without it, and we were camping by a lake in the boonies. The crazy part is that, of all days for me to be riding like this, in the back of my mind I always knew I could call for our pick up to bring me someone’s leftover battery if I got stuck. But since I wasn’t with the team this morning, I was not aware that Dee‘s bike battery had died and he and Dave were driving all the way back to Pueblo & back to pick up one he ordered days ago. They didn’t get back here until almost 10pm! Today’s ride was mostly uninhabited, just a few small towns. I know some of you were praying about my batteries today, that I would be enough to get me here. Conserving them was very long hard work, but I also fully see evidence of being protected this trip, this is one more. For the second time, today after 2pm, one thunder shower after another was forecast for the time I was riding through each area. I got caught in one short rain & hail storm but it didn’t soak through, and other than that it poured on all sides of me but not where I was riding. In front, behind, and on both sides. And to have mineral springs two days in a row was a dream! My swollen gland and earache were gone this morning, and obviously I had steady strength back to complete this day. Wow, so grateful. And a beautiful sunset! 🥰terri No potable water at this campground, so I didn’t even ask about Wi-Fi, lol!