I slept in fairly late, then need to do some laundry. The laundry rooms were pretty busy, so this took a large part of the afternoon. I never had time to get up to Devils Tower. Dinner tonight was provided by the KOA staff. During Tour Talk afterwards, the owner told us the history of [...]
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[Note: These stories about the Coast-to-Coast bicycle ride appeared on the Adena News web site during the summer of 2004.] Area News Adena native Kevin Madzia is planning to ride with a group called Cycle America. Kevin’s fundraising bicycle ride starts in Seattle, Washington on June 20th and ends in Gloucester, Massachusetts on August 21st. [...]
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We headed to the Golden Corral again for breakfast. The lunch stop was in the town of Moorcroft. I had planned to do some more spinning during lunch today. Jeremy had finished the modifications to my bike last night. On the way to lunch, we passed up a group including Jane, who had two flat [...]
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Our breakfast was back at the Occidental Hotel, which was a delicious egg casserole and a strawberry champagne soup. I caught the second SAG van out, with Mary driving, and Robert, Charlie, Alis, and I along for the ride. Today’s route was pretty straightforward and uninteresting, along Interstate 90 to the city of Gillette (no, [...]
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Today’s route offered a unique challenge logistically. When the router had scouted the route yesterday, he found that there were two ten-mile sections of construction, where the road surface was virtually non-existent. Traffic was limited to one lane on these stretches, where a pilot truck led vehicles over gravel, dirt, and at time, mud. So, [...]
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The day seemed off to a slow and confusing start. There were four of us riding in the van at first—Kira driving, then Robert, myself, and Charlie, a doctor from Illinois who decided to take the day off from riding. The problem was that we could not load bikes on the roof rack, since today’s [...]
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We returned to Daylight Donuts for breakfast before getting on the road. The lunch stop was at a rest area near Pilot Butte and the Wind River Canyon, both of which I recall from our family trip in the area ten years ago. I did just one hour on the trainer today, which let me [...]
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It was a pretty chilling morning while we packed up our tents and other gear, and although the sun shined brilliantly on the Tetons, the cloulds hovered very low over the range, obscuring the view of the peaks. The bike route had about a 10-mile warm-up stretch into and out of Jackson, breakfast was an [...]
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This being a day off, I slept to the relatively late hour of 7:30am, then took a much-needed shower. I ran into Aussie Matt on my way back to the tents, and he said that he was planning to walk over to Wilson for breakfast. I thought that seemed like a long walk; he said [...]
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I rode in the second SAG van again today, with Meryl at the wheel, and Robert along for the ride, giving his bad knee another rest day. The morning part of the route passed through rolling hills of green wheat and soy, accented occasionally by fields of brilliant yellow canola. The Tetons were visible off [...]
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