Adventures
March, 1982
The sun-bleached skeleton of a long-horn steer lay sprawled beside the heat-cracked road like a corny omen in a Ron Reagan Western, but few of the 7000 or so cyclists stampeding past it seemed to notice. Pumping and panting, they climbed the first long hill leading out of the Mexican border town of Tecate, hell-bent on pedaling 72.8 miles through high desert and rugged ranch land to the Pacific Coast port of Ensenada. According to the rules, the bicyclists had seven hours to reach their goal, wh...
