If there were senior superlatives (like in high school) for states, New Mexico would hands down win best scenary, most unique, most diverse (both scenary and weather) and just overall my favorite state so far.


Seriously. And thats says a lot because the 8 miles in Kansas were pretty superb!


Reasons why:
-The landscape of New Mexico is SO beautiful. We went from flat desert outside Roswell to beautiful mountains. Today the beginning of the day was rainy, but it turned into a thick fog. It was like we were biking through clouds, as if we were care bears! And of the side of the road you could see some cactus as such, but it was kinda dream like with the thick clouds surrounding us.

-About ten miles in we went through a park called Valley of Fire. It had black, volcanic rock and thousands of years ago was a site for a lot of volcanic activity.
-Around mile 30 the skies totally cleared to reveal a bright, beautiful, blue sky. Later on in the day there were huge rolling clouds

-The last ten miles of the trip we turned right and caugh our second tail wind of the trip. It was fabulous to go about 20 mph without dying!
-As we were coming in to our host, we approached gorgeous mountains that had huge thunderstorms over them. Most of us avoided the rain...some (sweep) did not...


And these compliments of NM are well deserved...even in a state where half our trip got sick!!

~Allie





And the mountains are diverse as well, from green-covered to sandy with cactus. And NM used to have lots of Volcanic activity, -The weather has been hot, but it also cools down in the evenings. Its diverse but lovely. Two days ago we literally biked through clouds to clear skys. We also dodged beautiful thunderstorms and could see the storm and lightning from the distance. Oh, and I've seen two rainbows, one which was at the top of a mountain.