So I'm sitting in laundromat in a little tourist town in Montana called West Yellowstone. We've been camping for the past 3 days and before that I didn't have any internet access.

Wyoming was by far the most visually spectacular state we've ridden through. It's so unpopulated. We really enjoyed Wyoming, both for the things we've seen but also the people we've met. Our hosts were unbelievably generous here (technically 'there', now that we're in Montana).

The riding has definitely become more hilly and tiring but I like the hills. It makes the riding more challenging and exciting. We crossed our first continental divide riding out of Dubois. It was straight uphill for the first 30ish miles. I got to the top, the continental divide, first. I think I'm the lightest guy on the team so I like to pound it out up hills. Mike was driving that day too. He might have been there with me - and Trent and Abby seemed to be taking it easy. At the top, we met a group of people riding across America, west to east. They're just doing it for fun rather than charity. Actually two of the guys on that team have an organization called Cycle2curecancer - I'm currently unable to find their website but they're both cancer survivors raising money for a cancer center in Colorado.

On that note we've met about 6 or 7 different groups of people riding across America. Seems like everyone's doing it these days. We're the only ones going south to north...maybe they know something we don't...

After getting to the top we rode all the way down, through a lot of construction to Grand Tetons National Park. The mountains were enormous (imagine that). We bathed in a river...a freezing river. It was basically one step up from ice. It was our first night of camping for we ate spaghetti and sung songs around the campfire until bedtime.

Camping isn't too hard so far. It just means we have to clean up everything really well because of the bears - AND we have to pack up our tents in the morning.

We camped 20 miles from Yellowstone Park. We figured we'd have an easy day - 20 miles to the park and then whatever it was to the campsite. Turns out once we got to Yellowstone it was another 55 miles to Madison where we were camping. The first 20 miles were all uphill to another continental divide. I was under the impression you can only go over the continental divide once...we have gone over it 4 times so far. The 55 miles to Madison were really up-and-down.

Yellowstone is gorgeous. The initial climb after the park entrance was about 500 feet. Through the trees we could see a huge canyon growing as we climbed. At the top we decided to stop and look over the edge but the mosquitos were intense. We literally ran back to our bikes to flee.

We had two days in Yellowstone - one riding in and one rest day. We hung out by the river and campsite for our rest day. At one point a bison strolled through our camp. They are massive -absolutely massive.

We kind of have another rest day today. It was only 14 miles downhill from Madison to West Yellowstone -thats about 32 minutes of riding today.