Short But Sweey

Arco ID
17 miles. 267 total




Bopped around Idaho Falls on a new steed. Don't let Blaze see this picture:). It'd break her heart. Went through some if the beautiful subdivisions, down to the falls, and to a couple of farmer's markets. Wonderful change of pace! Thanks, Sarah!!!

And got a ride out about 50 miles so that I wouldn't be camping on govt nuclear testing site. So I had a short jaunt in to Arco. Short, but interesting. I met Glenn Caffery. He's a guy who's running across the US to raise $$$ for curing Alzheimers. Check out his site at alzrun.org. And make a donation if you're so moved. Certainly a good cause. He's running 50 miles a day pushing his gear in a trailer.

Then I met Beth and Adam (I think). Brother and sister doing a 4 day ride across Idaho. 200 miles. Today they out did themselves biking from Idaho Falls to Arco. About 65 miles. 13 hours. Thanks you guys for dinner! So thoughtful. Hope I see you out there again tomorrow!

And a gent in the restaurant suggested a town park with bathrooms as a place to spend the night. I hear a raucous outside my tent. Hope that's not him! Nope. Just a dog. Whew! Hope he stays away from the food on my bike.

Gosh golly, I love this life of wandering!!! I love not knowing what's around the next corner or who I'll meet.

Pedal on, Pedal on

BagLady

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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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