Luke & Adam's West to East Cycle Beast USA

Soooo, day 11 and about 900 miles in. So far I've gone through 8 inner tubes and 2 tires. Luke hasn't even had a puncture yet but he has fallen off three times and buckled his back wheel twice. Having left Miami (Arizona) we pedaled our way 90 miles to Show Low through an incredible landscape of mountains and canyons, which translates as lots of up hill. From Show Low it flattened out at about 6,000 ft and we had a fairly easy ride to Springerville and then on to Pie Town, a small place that was big on pies and big on hospitality. There we stayed in Hostel style place known as the Toaster house. This only cost us a small donation and massively helped our Budget (thanks Nita!), it was also well stocked with beer and food! Also staying was a Country and Western singer by the name of Jimmy Wayne who treated to a few awesome songs and guitar playing! Jimmy is walking from Nashville to Phoenix in aid of a charity helping homeless teens in the US. Hungover and tired we set off for Socorro where Luke achieved some impressive sunburn. Yesterday we left Socorro at 3am and speeded the 8 miles down the interstate to Route 380, sadly from then on we were working against a brutal head wind and it wasn't till 4pm that we made it to Carrizozo 80 miles away, it wasn't hot or particularly hilly but complete destroyed us! On the way the bicycle pump fell in half and was lost on the interstate so on arriving in Carrizozo we were desperately in need of some spares as I'd gone through all but one of the spare tubes and we now had no pump. Luckily a local guy called Gary was kind enough to drive us 30 miles to a Wall Mart, on the way he explained to us in detail his money making scheme selling wood, why Heroine is better than Crack, how his sunglasses helped him see at night and the best way to drive (between the lines apparently). Today we've had a short but steep ride to Capitan as a bit of recovery. You may of noticed that our journey is nothing like what we had previously talked about and we have ended up way further north. This means the trip has been and will be more hilly but also means it will be a couple of hundred miles shorter, less hot and with a few more opportunities to have a few beers! That's the latest abridged and censored news so far, next stop Roswell.