Saturday, July 5, 2008

The mountains have given way to the hills

Hills that go up and down and up again are mentally tougher than a big
mountain pass for me, and it'll be hills I bet for another few days
until I get to the northern tier of North Dakota.


For the moment, I think I'm finally on one of the major cross-country
bicycling routes, as I've met a few others and seen even more from a
distance. Among them have been Ross and Josh (http://gordthegreat.blogspot.com

) who were having a great adventure riding from Seattle to their home
state of New York.


Today I hope to finish up with Wyoming and enter South Dakota. The
scenery yesterday consisted of hay fields and coal mines on hill after
hill after hill. Towns on the map of the forgotten section of Wyoming
I passed through yesterday were only a bar/restaurant/post office
combination with signs in the window reading "Spotted Horse,
Population 2, Elevation 4026."

2 comments:

alex said...
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flipmoe said...

Hey I just met a group of people who are heading to Oregon from Athens. I think that they're heading up in the same general direction as you're coming from.

Be quite strange if you ran into 'em on your trip

Happy 4th! (late since it's the 5th already)