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I was down to my last half liter of water.\u00a0 Bumping along a rough track in the Arizona desert, this lack of H2o was some cause for distress.\u00a0\u00a0 We ought to be passing a ranch about now.<\/p>\n

But where was it?\u00a0 The empty desert stretched out before us.\u00a0 The cowboy we\u2019d crossed paths with earlier in the day swore there was a ranch out here.\u00a0 \u201cCan\u2019t miss it.\u00a0 A giant green oasis in the Arizona desert,\u201d he\u2019d assured before peeling off in his pick-up truck.<\/p>\n

After our rough ride down Mount Lemmon, we were ready for even more dirt. Life on the road had gotten a bit too tame and I needed some adventure. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Why Ride Dirt?<\/h2>\n

Many American highways rate disappointingly low on the adventure scale.\u00a0 Sharing the road with fleets of massive 18-wheellers can be frightening. \u00a0Faceless cities and towns all meld into one.\u00a0 A dull succession of Dollar Shops, fast food joints, and big box stores.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dirt roads, on the other hand, almost always lead to adventure. Those rides are the ones that stick in your mind years later.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Now, I like my adventure slightly tamer than some. A week way-finding on a barely-visible track through some remote mountain chain is about as enticing as a game of Russian roulette.<\/p>\n

My GPS-Enabled Life<\/h2>\n

Each to his own, as they say.\u00a0 Adventure management got significantly easier once we joined the 21st<\/sup> century and equipped ourselves with GPS-enabled cell phones.<\/p>\n

For the most part, we no longer freak out, wondering whether or not we\u2019re on the right road.\u00a0 That\u2019s a massive change to our pre-GPS cycling days.\u00a0 Even in 2015 (when we biked\u00a0 Japan), we regularly took wrong turns and ended up hopelessly lost, often being forced to backtrack long distances.<\/p>\n

No more. Clutching my $100 Chinese cell phone (love ya\u2019 Xiomi) equipped with the powerful (and completely free) My Maps.me app I knew exactly where I was.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0The app showed a big blotch of green a few miles ahead.\u00a0 That had to be the ranch.<\/p>\n

We huffed and puffed up one last evil hill and suddenly a glorious emerald green oasis came into view:\u00a0 the Smallhouse Ranch. Time to top up those water bottles!<\/p>\n

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Ready to do battle with the big hills ahead.<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Oh they're just trying to scare us.<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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There's always a price to pay for adventure.<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Are you sure there's a ranch out here?<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Have faith. Just a few more pedal strokes and the landscape will transform into a sea of green.<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Water and a spot to pitch the test. Gracias, amigo!<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Camping spot #1,879. Isn't she a beauty.<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Back on the road. Ready for another day of Arizona bike touring adventures.<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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