Day 34: Seeley Lake In 1867, a French woman named Madame Guyot established a hotel and a restaurant on a popular mountain pass outside Helena, MT. Her husband, Constant, built a toll road traversing the pass, which climbs at a constant 6% grade for about nine miles. One year later, in 1868, the Madame was […]

Day 33: We Rode for Chocolate Milk Bozeman, MT to Helena, MT, the capital of the state: One of our longest days on the saddle. We sat on the narrow piece of plastic for over twelve hours today, held up by flats, construction, poor roads, and teammates who got lost. As a team, we make […]

We wake up every day, put on our uniform, rub the sleep out of our eyes, and get ready for our day. Each and every day so far has been special for good or not so good reasons. We’ve peddled through the straight bumpy roads of Louisiana, fought through the rains of Mississippi/Arkansas/and Missouri, relished […]

The first sport I ever watched on television was a cricket match with my father. Age five Sai saw India batsman Sachin Tendulkar, the best player in the world at the time, hit the Australian world-class “bowler” Shane Warne out of the ground in Sharjah, U.A.E. I’ve been hooked on the game ever since, and […]

Day 31: Livingston, MT: Rugged, Yet Refined In the fall and winter, high-speed winds rush down from the rugged slopes of the mountains in Montana. These “katabatic” winds can reach up to 50 mph and shut down highways. Luckily, on our 64-mile ride from Yellowstone National Park to Livingston, MT, we didn’t encounter these. The […]

Day 30: I Am the Buffalo Consider a buffalo plodding along the forested roads of Yellowstone National Park. The sturdy creatures eat constantly cause traffic jams in the Park. Tourists constantly want to take pictures of them and with them. Alone, the buffalo remain weak to predators but in herds they share strength. As we […]

Day 29: Whitewater Rafting and Jenny Lake I think my favorite sound is water lapping a smooth rock face on a beachhead. Today I had two opportunities to enjoy that sound: on our rest day in Jackson Hole, WY, we went whitewater rafting and then to Jenny Lake in Teton National Park. When rafting I […]

Day 28: Photography In the early 20th century, the famous photographer Ansel Adams was hired by the National Park Service to capture America’s natural beauty. Adams drove a car with his camera mounted on top of the roof. He photographed, among other places, the Snake River as it winds through the Teton mountain range. In […]

Extended time in the wilderness and a couple grueling days on the bike have led to yet another large gap between blog posts, but I’m back in civilization now and will take a shot at getting y’all caught up. It’s been four days already since we left Mammoth Lakes for Yosemite National Park (Day 24), […]

We spent the first section of the ride following the Mississippi River. But today we hit the headwaters, and now there is no river. Just the north. We’ve biked here from New Orleans in little less then a month… What’s even more tough is in another month we will be reaching Anchorage, Alaska. My acquaintances […]