Day 53: Wells, NV to Elko, NV

Total Distance: 49.0 mi
Moving Avg: 11.1
Moving Time: 4:23 

Today was a short day, in the name of Internet access. There was
somewhere I could have stopped a bit further down the road (22 miles),
but they were saying it was going to rain and I wanted to check my
email, so I stopped. Today was also notable for its high speed. I
seemed to be in high gear for most of they day. I wish I had slightly
better control of such things, but I'm working on it. 

I had a bit of an adventure today. The highway had developed the bad
kind of rumble strips (all the way across the shoulder) which it seems
to do every now and again, so I decided to give the frontage road a
shot. The road had been there for quite a while, and an exit was
coming up soon, so I figured either it would end there or keep
going. And there was a gate and a path right onto the road, so I took
it. About three miles down the road the pavement stopped. Eit. I
started looking for a way back onto the highway. No dice. The, the
road ends all together. It curved around to an underpass and led away
from the highway. One spur continued along the highway, but had a 'No
Outlet' sign. I followed the no outlet spur looking for a way over the
barbed-wire fence, but in the end I just decided to hop the fence. I
found a low point, about groin hight. I detached the BOB the lifted
the BOB and bike over, the climbed over myself. All in all, it went
much better than I hoped. Only very minor barb-related damage, and no
blood. Of course, there were a lot of very sharp plants there to make
it harder, so I did get rather scratched. Oh well, it was an
adventure.