Wow! Today was quite an experience. After packing up from our campsite, we set off intending to bike about 110 miles today. We started at 9:45 a.m. About 20 miles into the bike we passed a farmer’s/rancher’s fence which had hats on all the fence posts. It looked pretty cool (we should have a pic of that). We also saw a farmer training/working a team of horses. After 32 miles into the ride we stopped at a town called Longview which had the “world’s best jerky”. While we were there, it really started thundering and pouring, and we had our lunch at the Twin cities café. We haven’t found any internet access yet to download these journal entries yet. All the libraries are closed this week because up here in Canada it is a four day vacation (for Canada Day). The rain showers continued to douse us as we entered the Rockies. The hills were really hard, but it paid off on the downhill. We had a 28 mile downhill ride. Dad was cruising! While in the Rockies, we saw Rocky Mountain sheep, Elk, and beautiful scenery. At the end, we stopped at our 110 mile mark at the Sundance campsite nestled in between all these ominous mountains. They had teepee’s and trapper’s tents for campers to sleep in. We got the trapper’s tent. It was still pouring cats and dogs when we got there so thank goodness for the tents and teepee’s that were already there. We ended our biking at 8:00 p.m. Also, this campsite had showers. It’s a relief to be able to go to bed nice and clean after a nice hot shower. We’re all pretty wiped after covering 202 miles in our first two days. We’ll see what tomorrow has in store for us.
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