Day 31

I wanted to do 80 miles from Pinedale to Atlantic City. The day started out very good. I got going at a decent time and had a big breakfast at a cafe. At about mile 60 I rode for about 1.5 miles along the continental divide. Really cool views, but that is when the wind started. There was a pretty good storm just to the north of me and I got to ride into the winds it produced. The temperature also started to plummet. I haven't had too many bad weather days, but this one definitely turned out to be a bad one. I went through South Pass City, which was a old gold mining city. A pretty lame tourist attraction. You can buy the old mercantile that is currently a knick/knack shop for $135,000 if anybody is interested. Then I continued on the last 4 miles to Atlantic City. It started to rain, but it felt like hail because it was blowing so hard. Finally Atlantic City appeared at the bottom of the hill. There even was a rainbow right behind the city! It was like it was saying, "Food and shelter right here!" "It's better than gold!" One of the guys at the bar that I ate at said that it was supposed to snow that night and the temperature was in the high 30's. I decided to get a cabin that the bar also had. I did not want to get snowed on. It turned out to be only $40 because it hadn't been cleaned from the last guest. I did not care, and it really was quite clean. There were three beds and two hadn't been slept in. It worked out quite well.