July on a Bike

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Rochester was fine after we got on the bike trail. Eerie canal was not that Eerie. ONE of us threw away our map. We went back to look for it and found it in the trash can. Some dude followed us, I mean, he lead us for a while. We avoided gravel and he showed us food. Thanks

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To Michigan

We were supposed to be on a train at 7:43 am. The train was delayed over  3 hours. We left Erin's apt. in the morning, and we biked, and we found Union station. There, we boxed our bikes.  many hours later we arrived in Chicago. Trains are so much faster than bikes, wow. I don't like trains though; they wouldn't let us take our bikes past Chicago to Grand Rapids so that was our last stop. We needed to pick up our bikes, we didn't know from where though. We somehow got our bikes b...
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I patched up my tire  with duct tape, electrical tape, and with sports tape. After the patchwork, we headed to a bike shop, hoping that my tire would hold up during the ride to the shop. The day before, I had felt lucky because even though my tire had a huge hole in it, my inner tube didn't rip, I rode on the tube for a bit and didn't get a flat. I only stopped riding because the hole eventually became large enough that the tube stuck out of the tire so much that it was hitting my brake.

So, w...
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Today we started in Ness city, KS. We biked continuously from 330am to 730am to some other small town, Rush Center, KS. When we arrived to Rush Center, all we wanted was food and some rest. To ensure that we left early, we didn't eat breakfast, so we were very hungry.
When we arrived to Rush Center, we were extremely tired. I was just about falling asleep on my bicycle. The night before, we didn't get much sleep and it was an especially long and tiring day.  We had arrived at Ness City at 7pm...
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THIS was going to be a long day, we had decided that. We had planned to head out at 4am. We managed to leave at 418am. Kayla, John, and I were determined to cover at least 100 miles; we had to.

So, we need to be in Michigan by this weekend. We are trying to make it to a wedding, and we have a long way to go. Right now, we are thinking that we can make it to Newton and catch a train from there. As long as we catch catch it on Thursday morning at the latest, we'll make it to Michigan. To make i...
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Day 35 boone to eads





We started at 525am. We talked all day with John. He's got a really funny personality and is very positive and outgoing. It was a delight biking with him. We were glad he stuck around. We arrived at Eads and the next town would be too far. We biked 78 miles... Not bad. We ate some food pb&j and we found a pool. I tried to do some flips off the diving board, I was not very good and was shown up by some little kids. We camped at the park by the library
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Day 35 pueblo to olney


We left pueblo at like 1 pm.  It was hot and we decided to put off biking and we went to breakfast. I had some spicy spicy food. We ate a muffin and a smoothie and we tried to update our blogs at the library. Computer malfunctions made that impossible. However, I was able to add Google Latitude to my website. If you go onto my website, you can see a map of my location. It updates when I have phone service, so it can't track exactly where I will be at all times, but i...
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7/20 cotopaxi to pueblo


Today we had 35 miles of climbing before our last big descent of 45 miles into Pueblo. We covered over 80 miles, 87 total for the day. That put us at our highest-mileage day. A couple of miles after we began our day we stumbled upon two miles of hard packed gravel road. That stuff makes it difficult to bike.

We were eager to make it to Pueblo early because Kayla's uncle, Stan, would be coming down to Pueblo from Boulder to have dinner with us. We had a long day ahead,...
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