Silver City
Written by admin on June 26, 2008 – 10:26 pm - 
Day 5 and I won’t mention the mornings anxiety!! We rode out at about 7:30 enroute to Silver City from our camp just off Highway 90 and Separ Road. The weather was nice with an overcase untill about noon and a slight breeze. We had to ride on the right-of-way of the road and at times within 3-5 feet of traffic. The horses all handled it well. I want to mention that the support crew (Kathy and Paul) did an excellent job this morning. Kathy really took charge and was able to obtain water from the local community of Tyrone (we ran out the day before). We’re finding that water is a precious commodity on this ride. She also brought us refreshments on the road and later assisted with our arrival into Silver City. The ride into Silver City had the greatest hills, yet, that we have been on, but they w1ern’t too difficult for the horses. We rode about 16 miles in the morning, reaching the City about 12:30. Our average was about 3 miles per hour. I had already alerted the city police of our arrival and they said to give them a call as we entered the city limits and they would escort us into town. 
I did and they had a car escort us about 3 miles through the city. Thank goodness, there was a bridge that we would have had difficult avoiding traffic on and there was a lot of other traffic through town because of their road construction. They took us to Walmart (which we had coordinated with earlier) to park in their parking lot. The police officers were quite hospital and “very” helpful in watching out for us. We had alerted the local newspaper (that indicated they had an interest in the ride) but they haven’t shown up, yet. We’re watching the local paper to see if they have any articles on the ride. We plan on staying here an extra day to rest the horses (actually……..rest ourselves) and will leave on Saturday for the Gila Wilderness (Cliff dwellings, hot springs, etc.). We’ve had a lot of visitors and are giving rides on our horses to the kids (in the WalMart parking lot!). We do enjoy visiting with everyone. We’ll keep your posted (or try).
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June 27th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Rocky, I am glad to see the ride is going well so far. I have really enjoyed reading the updates on your first week. I know your ride is going to be tough, but enjoyable. I’m glad I got to meet you in Pueblo at Phillip’s house and we got to exchange a few stories. I am looking forward to keeping up with your progress and stories along the way. I will keep Phillip up to date.
Harold
Cleveland, TN