Day 15 Miles: 109 Mileage from start: 1,258 We joined U.S. Route 2 in Cut Bank and have been following it for the last couple hundred miles. It is mainly chip and seal pavement of various ages and roughness. It doesn’t make for the worst riding ever (that’s large pieces of gravel) but it does […]
Day 14 Miles: 96 Miles from start: 1,149 This Montana wind is no joke. After a lovely sunset, I spent the night trying to sleep through the sound of the tent getting bashed by the wind. In the morning, still with a chill in the air, I left the loud wind outside and spent some […]
Day 13 Miles: 109 Miles from start: 1,053 We left Waterton Village under clear skies and with that wicked wind to our backs. It didn’t stay at our backs all day, however. Much of the day was spent at a tilt to the south to accommodate for the strong wind. In front of me, Richard […]
Day 12 Miles: 0 Miles from start: 944 Sleep, eat, sleep, boat ride, eat, sleep, eat, shower, sleep. That’s about how the day went. And how a zero should be, I think. Rest and energy consumption. Breakfast was eggs Benedict at the hotel restaurant with goat cheese, tomatoes and spinach. Then a nap, followed by […]
Day 11 Miles: 55 Mileage from start: 944 Right now I’m sitting in a laundromat in Waterton Village, Alberta. I am eating SweetTarts and trying to write but every time I finish a SweetTart I have to set my phone down so I can peel another off the roll. When we woke up this morning, […]
Day 10 Miles: 115 Mileage from start: 889 Today was the longest miles combined with the hardest hill so far. We got started at a reasonable time for us: 8:30 a.m. It was still chilly and we delayered as the sun warmed us. After some fairly straight forward riding through horse pastures and over gravely […]
Day 9 Miles: 89 Mileage from start: 774 Last night, from inside our tent, we could see the sky glow orange. We poked our heads out to catch the last of a lovely sunset. In the morning we had another late start. We stopped for food at the grocery store in town and I got […]
Day 8 Miles: 98 Mileage: 685 Oops! We slept through the alarm and woke at 9 a.m. It’s those comfy hotel beds plus darkened sleep curtains plus being constantly exhausted. Oh, well. We got ourselves to breakfast — which was delicious eggs and vegetables — and packed up ready to leave around 11 a.m. Not […]
Day 7 Miles: 107 Mileage from start: 587 After all the rain from yesterday, it was really nice to wake up without the patter of more on our tent. As we started our ride, the air was crisp and big gray clouds blocked most of the sunlight. With towering pines on both sides of the […]
Day 6 Miles: 81 Mileage from start: 480 It’s a good thing I was getting tired of all that sun and heat because it’s gone! We slept in at the hotel in Republic and didn’t get moving until after 10 a.m. The day dawned cloudy and over breakfast it started raining and thundering. Fortunately the […]