Category: 2009

But don’t worry, we ducked inside just in time and are eating a big basket of onion rings.

poor bike

Don’t worry – we’re still alive. We made it to glacier park with no problems. We had a great tailwind to help us over logan pass, only to get absolutly drenched on the way down. Unfortuntely, at that point we had to eat Ralph and Maya. They were great company, and took to bike touring like an RV takes to straddling the white line, but Ralph had been fattening himself up on burritos, and we were quite hungry. We took two days to hike in the park, during which I nearly sacrificed my knee to one of the mny goats and sheep we saw. Nick must have noticed Megan sizing him up for dinner, cuz he hopped the next train out of town. As for Tasha, her whereabouts are a mystery, but we can only assume she noticed all the food pics and sought to avoid her inevitable fate. So now it’s just the two of us, rolling along through lovely montana. We should make it to Helena tomorrow!

finally, greg’s dream came true and we found a town with a rodeo. So far, the cows are winning. The whole town is out here in their sunday cow ropin best. There are as many cow girls as there are boys, altho I haven’t seen any women on bucking broncos. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

rope em, cow person!

we made it through west yellowstone mostly unscathed by the super tourism and fleets of rv s. I went to my favorite women owned and operated bike shop. We destoroyed a pizza and discovered that artichokes only on one side is not the same as only artichokes on one side. The ride into west yellowstone was hard and long. We climbed 4000 feet over 30 miles, which was the easier route. But now we’re in the park. This morning we had to fend off the vehicle toting masses who kept trying to pitch their tents in our coveted hiker bicyclist only site. We saw a bison this morning just hangin out by the side of the road. We should be in tetons tomorrow, where i’ve been told all the moose hang out.

mmm pizza!

we had a great ride through the tetons, despite ten miles of construction that left us caked in mud. it’s been pretty chilly the past few nights – there was ice on the bear box the other morning – but it’s nice and cool for riding during the day. Right now we’re 60 miles into what should be our first century of the trip – the wind is pushing us across the high plains of wyoming. We should hit utah tommorrow!

we were warned back in montana not to go thru rock springs, but we didn’t have much way around it. It’s not the worst town we’ve been in, but the locals have been unfriendly and the only camping was a koa for thirty bucks a night. We slept on some blm land across the street from halliburton and around the corner from monsanto instead. Awesme. Next stop

no goodsville

we blew thru utah and are on to our final state

colorado tastes better than utah!

if you ever stay in the rv park outside of steamboat, remember to do a bear hang. No one bothered to warn us about the raccoon problem. We’ve had various problems with them along the way, but they were mostly just annoying. This time those little trouble makers very quietly dragged a food pannier from under the fly and ate all our food. Luckily, they know how to unzip things and didn’t destroy the pannier but did leave raccoon spit everywhere.

well, there’s just about 140 miles and 5 thousand feet of climbing between us and Denver. Unfortunately, we heard the escalator in rocky mountain park is down for maintenance, so we’ll have to climb up to 12200 feet under our own power. Good thing we prepped by doing a 3 thousand foot climb yesterday. We should be in Denver in time to celebrate megan’s birthday on monday.

Cookies and cream pie is intense!