Sanderson to Del Rio

Today is the 111 mile ride,but there was an option to go to Easter Sunrise Service and get a push forward to lunch. Six of us did this and it was a great service and then rode in the van to our lunch stop,which was 60 miles away. We met "Charlie" who owned the convenience store and he told us of the story of a house,which was just across the street,that was rented by a husband who worked for the railroad. Except he was the place where the drug runners dropped off the bags of marijuana and then placed on railroad cars. The Border Patrol arrested him and his wife. Gail and started our ride at lunch and it was 51 miles to Del Rio and it was the hardest 51 mile ride because of the "Texas Rollers" and the heat index was in the high 90's. We crossed the Pecos river and took pictures. We couldn't wait get into the hotel as a storm was approching with lightening. There were several riders that were doing their first century today. When we at "Charlie"store he said were only a half mile from Mexico.

I wanted to relay a ghost story from the the Gage Hotel in Marathon that happened to one of our riders. It seems at 2:00am,Evelyn heard someone downstairs picking at the piano keys over and over and then footsteps going upstairs. We were staying in the old section of the hotel,bur Evelyn went back to sleep. In the morning,Evelyn went to the front desk to inquire about the piano playing and the desk clerk asked what room was she staying in. When she told her,the clerk said " oh you are next door to the ghost and we don't have a piano". Ohhhhhhhhhh!