July 13, 2009, Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Kids I want to kill at this moment: 5
Parents who deserve to be killed at this moment: 3 sets (b/c really, the misbehaving in a restaurant isn’t the kids fault, but the parents’)
Miles ridden today: 60
Maximum speed hit: 50 mph (Coming down the Steamboat side of Rabbit Ears Pass, I didn’t have to break once … kudos to the engineers who designed it)

Tour de Wyoming's tent city. Mine is the green one. No reason I'm separate from the herd other than seeking shade.

Tour de Wyoming's tent city. Mine is the green one. No reason I'm separate from the herd other than seeking shade.

So day 2 of the Tour de Wyoming has us again in Colorado. Tour de Wyorado? Not that I’m super eager to return to Wyoming though as tomorrow night we’re in Baggs. I didn’t even know there was a town there. I thought there was just a gas station, albeit a much nicer one than the one in Arlington, Wyo., which, when I was running on fumes and pulled in there en route to Laramie, had closed 15 minutes prior. And didn’t have pumps that took credit cards. I had to pay an Arlington resident $40 for 5 gallons. And this fleecing was perpetrated by a Wyoming Highway Patrolman! Obviously one of the state’s finest. I’ll bet I wasn’t the first person to get stuck in Arlington without gas (and with the nearest station 33 miles away). I’m certainly never going to patronize the gas station there, even if it’s open the next time I pass through.

Thank god. The world’s most misbehaved kids have left the building. (“The building” being Beau Jo’s Mountain Bistro. I have heard so much about their pizza over the years I had to try it. Now that I have, I can say it’s nothing special. The pizza at Jackson’s South Side Pizza and Pub is better. Best of all is still the pizza at The Bridge in Missoula.)

The Bridge never has annoying kids either. Its scene is college kids trying to discover themselves. So good people watching. But back to Beau Jo’s. I can now hear myself think. And I’m starting to think about what sort of baked goods might be available in Steamboat. Perhaps I’ll go look.

July 13, post baked-goods hunt.

Success! Winona’s rocks. Although the brownie-like confection as big as my head that I ate has left my stomach a bit troubled. Only because I shouldn’t have eaten the whole thing at once. I think I might have to go back for breakfast tomorrow morning. Because if I don’t treat myself pre-ride, I fear tomorrow will be treatless. Because Baggs? I can’t imagine them having much in the way of treats outside of candy bars bought at the gas station.