we started this morning  in El Centro and are in Palo Verda. An 82 mile ride with some major hill climbing but not as bad as yesterday for hills. It was super hot, I think I heard that it hit  90 degrees and supposed to be hotter tomorrow. I was 8 miles from camp and the ladies came with the pickup to check on me with one hour of daylight left. I could have made it, but I was so tired I let them talk me into loading the trike on the truck, tho they didn’t have to talk very hard to convince me😀 Tomorrow we have 72 miles some major hill climbing and some heat. Boy, I don’t want to not make it three days in a row, that would be major wimpy. All of us are having significant problems with muscle cramps, especially in the middle of the night. John has us drinking Quinine water!! I am drinking gallons of Gator Aid. I took lots of pictures today but the cell service and WiFi are super weak and wouldn’t send the pictures. My Trike is working good now. Very comfortable, no butt pain, neck pain, hand pain, or shoulder pain as last year. Doesn’t go as fast as a regular bike but I will take comfort over speed any day. Rode on a 15 mile section today where there was no shoulder so I have to ride my Trike in the road, and in the 15 miles I got 5 major horn honks. I am not sure what people expect me to do, but I just smiled and waved. When the ladies drove past me I didn’t recognize the pickup but when they pulled off in front of me I thought,”Oh great, someone is going to yell at me” ! I rode right on by, and Patty yelled at me, and I thought, ” I think I know that lady”