Day 28: Photography In the early 20th century, the famous photographer Ansel Adams was hired by the National Park Service to capture America’s natural beauty. Adams drove a car with his camera mounted on top of the roof. He photographed, among other places, the Snake River as it winds through the Teton mountain range. In […]

Extended time in the wilderness and a couple grueling days on the bike have led to yet another large gap between blog posts, but I’m back in civilization now and will take a shot at getting y’all caught up. It’s been four days already since we left Mammoth Lakes for Yosemite National Park (Day 24), […]

We spent the first section of the ride following the Mississippi River. But today we hit the headwaters, and now there is no river. Just the north. We’ve biked here from New Orleans in little less then a month… What’s even more tough is in another month we will be reaching Anchorage, Alaska. My acquaintances […]

Chi-Town wrapped up just as it started, with tons of awesome people and amazing memories. The one thing that I cherished most out of the last 24 hours in Chicago were spending time talking to some alumni from previous years. Texas 4000 is hard in the fact that the majority of the outside world will […]

Day 27: The Kiwanis Club Today we rode 74 miles to Dubois, WY from Lander, WY. We stayed at an Episcopal Church which also houses the local Kiwanis Club. Kiwanis is an international community service organization that focuses on children. I used to be in Key Club, the high school version of Kiwanis. One of […]

As a die hard Astros fan St. Louis had always interested me, both for my dislike for the Cardinals baseball team, but also for the feel of the city. St. Louis has been in my eye sight because of all the times I’ve seen glimpses of the city on television and my small knowledge of […]

It feels like just yesterday we were spending time in St. Louis at Sense Corp. The crazy thing about it though is that we were in St. Louis only three days ago, and in that three days we crossed over 350 miles on (and off due to the weather) the bike to get to Chicago, […]

Day 26: Pioneers on the Oregon Trail In the early 19th century, the Oregon Trail took migrants from the eastern United States to the West. The Trail ran East-West from the Missouri River to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Split Rock, between Rawlins, WY and Lander, WY, served as a stage station on the Oregon […]

Day 25: Dease Lake Qualifier Several of my friends today rode the 102 miles from Laramie, WY to Rawlins, WY in under six hours. At an average pace around 18 mph – we usually take it easy around 14 mph – they became the champions for today. These teammates did the ride as a “qualifier” […]

Day 24: The Equality State Wyoming was the first state to allow women the right to vote. It was also the first to have a female justice, a female bailiff, and a female governor. Fittingly, the motto of Wyoming is the Equality State. But I’m not sure how the state dinosaur, the triceratops, fits in […]