so, here we are.... NOT in Montana!
So we had a half-day build today, here in Sandpoint, where I learned to install siding. I just keep adding to my skills list, yay. We've hit the cascades, now, and should be in them for the rest for the trip pretty much. the rest of the trip being..................9 days! including one more build day in Washington! Ack! I cant believe we're come so far, and that time has passed so quickly. I attempting to upload photos now, but i must admit i havnt been taking many photos. I'll just have to steal all of Erik's great photos at the end of the trip.
hmm, I seem to be having some difficulty.
I'll try to put a few up here if it works.
tata for now.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
leaving Montana.
oh my goodness.
oh
my
goodness.
Glacier National Park.
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK!
GLACIER PARK!
GLACIER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow.
Biking is going.... and going..... and going.... we've ridden 3350 miles. 650 miles to go, through the cascades. I CANNOT believe it has passed bye so quickly. we rode through Glacier national Park a few days ago and it was STUNNING. plus, now i can say i've biked over the Rockies!!! woo! it was such a sudden change from seemingly-unending wheat fields to being in the Rocky Mountains. a very welcome change too. ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!
we just finished deciding how to allocate the money we raised, and we're giving sizable donations to six really great organizations doing very interesting builds. I learned how to put up roof shingles with a nail gun. I have ridiculous tan lines. we have 11 days left, and i cant really comprehend that yet, since we have 650 miles left to bike.
and that's the news.
oh
my
goodness.
Glacier National Park.
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK!
GLACIER PARK!
GLACIER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow.
Biking is going.... and going..... and going.... we've ridden 3350 miles. 650 miles to go, through the cascades. I CANNOT believe it has passed bye so quickly. we rode through Glacier national Park a few days ago and it was STUNNING. plus, now i can say i've biked over the Rockies!!! woo! it was such a sudden change from seemingly-unending wheat fields to being in the Rocky Mountains. a very welcome change too. ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!
we just finished deciding how to allocate the money we raised, and we're giving sizable donations to six really great organizations doing very interesting builds. I learned how to put up roof shingles with a nail gun. I have ridiculous tan lines. we have 11 days left, and i cant really comprehend that yet, since we have 650 miles left to bike.
and that's the news.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Chinook MT
hello? anyone still out there still reading my blog? Its been forever since I've updated it. lets see. so here's the run down. since Crookston:
wind, wind, then surprising tailwinds yay!!! and fields. lots of fields.
We were just on Hwy 2 to Minot, where we got a welcome day off to just relax. i did nothing. i slept and ate and slept and listened to music and made a significant dent in the amazing mountain of food sent to me in both Duluth and Minot.
Thank You!!!! thanks to Grandpa, I have enough Juicy Fruit gum to last a life time, and between him and my parents, I am feasting like royalty on every sort of cool treat imaginable.
After Minot we went to new town and then to the by-now-infamous Theodore Roosevelt national park. it was absolutely beautiful, until about 2 am when a thunderstorm proceeded to flatten our camp, thoroughly drench us all, and force us to flee to shelter in the bathroom. not the most comfortable place to sleep, but it worked. after that, we got back on to Hwy 2 and have been blessedly free of headwinds since.
there's really not that much to report: we've been pedaling ...a lot.... in mostly a straight line..... past fields..... and more fields.
the days are finally getting rather routine. but that should be shattered in just a few days when we get to ( drum roll please) THE ROCKIES!!
we're going straight through Glacier Nat'l park on the Going To The Sun road, and its going to be amazing. steep, but amazing.
PS, my odometer is going to pass 3000 miles tomorrow. woah.
wind, wind, then surprising tailwinds yay!!! and fields. lots of fields.
We were just on Hwy 2 to Minot, where we got a welcome day off to just relax. i did nothing. i slept and ate and slept and listened to music and made a significant dent in the amazing mountain of food sent to me in both Duluth and Minot.
Thank You!!!! thanks to Grandpa, I have enough Juicy Fruit gum to last a life time, and between him and my parents, I am feasting like royalty on every sort of cool treat imaginable.
After Minot we went to new town and then to the by-now-infamous Theodore Roosevelt national park. it was absolutely beautiful, until about 2 am when a thunderstorm proceeded to flatten our camp, thoroughly drench us all, and force us to flee to shelter in the bathroom. not the most comfortable place to sleep, but it worked. after that, we got back on to Hwy 2 and have been blessedly free of headwinds since.
there's really not that much to report: we've been pedaling ...a lot.... in mostly a straight line..... past fields..... and more fields.
the days are finally getting rather routine. but that should be shattered in just a few days when we get to ( drum roll please) THE ROCKIES!!
we're going straight through Glacier Nat'l park on the Going To The Sun road, and its going to be amazing. steep, but amazing.
PS, my odometer is going to pass 3000 miles tomorrow. woah.
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