No more rain please
I think this picture was actually from the day before- oh well
Idaho! We're almost home!
The wonderful lodge where I had prime rib!
We stayed at Lolo hot springs last night & enjoyed a little bit of time in the springs which our muscles enjoyed. We chatted with the campground manager for awhile, who we discovered rode horseback for two years from Montana to Panama- crazy!! It rained all night long, which is always a joy. It has rained EVERY day since Pueblo. Thats been rain everyday for 2 weeks +! What the heck? I'm so sick of the crud weather. Seems like the whole nation has had a real shotty June.
We stopped for lunch at a cute little lodge (the only place to eat for about 70 mile) that had really good food. We met our first female TransAmerica cyclists there. Two college-aged girls who are riding eastbound. They seem a little more in shape for the trip than we were, so it should go a little smoother for them.
After we left the lodge we were just cruising along, & I was lamenting the crappy weather and wishing we didn't have our beast trailers along (I don't mean to be the huge whiner that I am, but the extra weight of the trailer causes me extra grief on the mt. passes because my back just starts to throb where I had surgery, and then I get some weird paranoia that I'll have to go through it all again- blah) when I looked up and saw a familiar vehicle. Dad! He has been in Idaho for a fly in, and we haven't had phone service for a couple days & apparently our GPS tracker hasn't been working (out of batteries but we didn't realize it) so he was a little worried & decided to back track & make sure we were ok. No complaints here- we loaded our trailers into that car and enjoyed some more load-free riding. Honestly, you can't compare the two, riding without the load seems to increase our speed two fold. Then of course it started pouring down rain & temps dropped into the 40s, so we went off route & got a hotel.
We're not too far from Oregon!
3 comments:
Hooray!! You are super close! Carson's living in Boise. Are you going through Boise at all? Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants if he saw you riding...I heard it's in the 90's there this week. Hopefully the rain is behind us all.
June in northern California has been lovely and temperate. Care to join me here? Please?!?! I guess I should get on the planning-to-visit-while-Ashleigh's-on-this-coast plans, shouldn't I? MISS YOU!
So excited that you're getting closer every day to Oregon!! Wish your dad could just drive you all the way up to my doorway tomorrow :) Can't wait for July!
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