We're Flying Now

Idaho Falls, ID

50 miles, trip total 250




Above photo is a campsite near the road, the night i slept with my food in my vestibule cause i was too tired and it was too rainy and there were no good bear bag trees.

Blaze got cropped, at least one tail did. And now she's trotting! We avg'd 10 mph yesterday and it felt so much more normal and pleasant to move along a bit faster. I'd gotten to dreading the day ahead because just getting 40 miles in was getting to be torture. Push, push, push. And getting nowhere. But that's behind us, and I'm happier for it.

The waitress at breakfast arbutus little diner in Swan Valley said there was a monster hill ahead. One her truck had a hard time going up. Her eyes got big and round as she thought about me biking up it. I asked her how it compared with the one between there and Victor that I had gone over. And she said that was a baby hill in comparison. Now I was a bit worried. So off I go. Gotta go. Hills and all. And I come to a hill early. And we chug up it. Nothing special. Nothing her truck couldn't do. Was that it? Is there another? On and on I pedal, worrying there's another Big One. But the valley flattens out and the hills are all in the distance. She was pulling my leg:). And so serious about it. Maybe she thought I was going a different way. That's all I could figure.

So last night I stayed at Sarah's house. Dennis hooked us up. What a delight she is. Felt like old friends right off. And the house is so cute and comfortable. Gonna be hard to leave these creature comforts and company. Getting a lift from her today out past the govt environmental lab acreage because I can't camp there. She'll drop me iff near Arco and the Craters of the Moon. Ohhh. What's camping there going to be like tonight? Camping in a lava field? Should be fun getting stakes in that stuff.

Sorry about the pics. May try again. Most of them are on the camera and not the phone anyways. Don't want to fill my phone with pics but they have to be on the phone to post because that's what I'm using for my computer. I went back and inserted one for ya!

Pedal on, pedal on

BagLady


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