Viva La Vagabond: A Fine Day for Riding

Apologies on the delay of the last post. It was written a few nights ago but never actually published. Anyway, so we have made it to Lander, Wyoming. It is quite the town of 7,000 people. That is the biggest we have seen since Missoula. We had a rough start yesterday morning. Even though we got to sleep in comfortable beds, tons of itchy mosquito bites made it hard to sleep. Some of us are getting a little under the weather, due to the weather and we put a lot of hard miles in while traveling through Yellowstone. We decided to journey on anyway and make it as far as we could, even though we did not have a lot of options of places to stay. The good news was the the ride was relatively down hill. We had a lot of rolling hills, up and down but we ultimately finished at a lower elevation. It wasn't an extremely exciting day, but a nice day. We had a big variety of very neat scenery. We went through a geologist's haven. I would love to try to vividly describe the type of landscape we saw, however I am not a geologist so I am incapable of doing so. We are also no National Geographic photographers so we were not able to capture the beauty of the area. Our best advice to you is, Google it. We ran into Brent once again when we stopped to eat lunch. About that time, dark clouds started rolling in. It actually worked out kind of nicely because it cooled off tremendously and we had a pretty gnarly sky to look at. The rain held off all the way until Fort Washakie. We had made it that far so we figured we might as well go 15 more miles to Lander. We waited out the storm for a little while at a gas station where we once again ran into Brent. The storm shortly passed and while exhausted and hungry, we used our second wind to get to Lander before it got any later. It was a fast 15 miles with some downhill and a little tailwind from the storm. Lander is very accommodating to cyclists. They allow free camping in the city park, have nice bike lanes, and showers are available for $2 at the city pool. We put in a total of 79 miles yesterday and it is at least 65 miles to anything else. We are also much overdo for a laundry day. We are going to hang out in Lander for the day and check out all the neat things to do while we have the chance to. It definitely looks like we may not have the chance to for a while. We are excited to be meeting up with Natalee's parents after they fly into Denver tomorrow and we are hoping to find a cool place to spend 4th of July. Wish us luck!

Striped hills