Day 10, Sun City, AZ to Mesa, AZ

Our hosts sent off in style with a big breakfast that lasted us until 2:00 pm. 

Jim and Don wrangled over the maps yesterday trying to find the best route through Phoenix from their house in Sun City. Jim and I wound up using the Google maps bicycle routing and it went perfectly until we could pick up the Adventure Cycling route along the canal bike path. 

It was dry so only served to route water when it rains. It was a beautiful way to get through a large portion of Phoenix. Later we rode along canals that were full of water used by the city water system. 

We got some help with routing from a couple of riders we saw earlier. The bike path went underneath almost all the cross roads in tunnels but one was tricky to find and they led us through it. 

We stopped at a bike cafe near the eastern edge of Phoenix for a Pepsi and the owner tried to figure out what was wrong with my Garmin GPS after it had locked up on me today. He got it working again but I lost all the data from previous rides. 

We worked our way past Arizona State U. and cycled through endless neighborhoods working our way to the Warm Showers host in Mesa. It's weird to spend all day and 55 miles riding through one (mostly) urban area. 

Our host, Bill, cycled out to meet us two miles away and then led us back to his home. Gerri fed us a wonderful dinner and we are grateful once again for good people who look after other cyclists.