A non stop, amazing 6 State week.

So this is the first day we haven’t travelled since leaving Lodi.  And what a week it’s been!  I’ll apologise again for not writing sooner but our days have just been so full on there’s been no time to write anything.  Here’s a quick rundown of how each day pans out.

We get up pretty, 6.30/7 or so) take care to eat a good breakfast and then get everything packed up.  If we’re in the tent that takes nearly 2 hours. Don’t ask why, it just does.  And there’s no shortcuts without risk of loses.  So then depending on how many friends we have made it can take some time to say goodbye and get on the road. We have been managing between 250/430 miles most days although we crossed Oregon in 1 day, nearly 700kms! Usually 2 stops for an hour or so and usually a fuel stop as well.  We’re making sure we eat as well as possible and we need to give ourselves a break to make sure we stay fit.

So we tend to arrive at whatever campground (or hotel twice since SF) in time to set up and eat before dark (8.30 ish). There’s a ways friendly neighbors and a little socializing, gear checks and route planning, so rarely in bed before 11.  And then off again the next morning and repeat.

But we are absolutely loving it. We are really just enjoying every foggy coastline, every boiling hot day, every smoke filled sky, everyone we meet and just everything.  Although the freezing sideways rain over Beartooth Pass into Wyoming yesterday was a tad unwelcome, the snow that closed the entrance of Yellowstone today could have been a few days later, and our first days rain in the tent proved a little boring and those bloody RV’s that infest everywhere here are just horrid. But a day off the bikes was welcome.

So we’ve in Cody Wyoming, centre of the wild west, Buffalo Bill and cowboy hats for 2 more nights, hoping that the back tyre I ordered today arrived here by Wednesday, and we’ve exhausted every shop in town looking for non-cowboy boots for Janelle as hers have developed a little hole under the gear lever.

This campground has a massage chair and after a few false starts Ive worked out how to type while being pummeled.   So with a little spare time (it’s 6pm on Monday afternoon), Im going to try and sit here and write up the story of how we covered nearly 3500kms across California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and now Wyoming in the last week.

But I must first attach 1 more picture from our Yosemite visit that Im told was very remiss not to include previously.

Also, Im told some of you are having trouble commenting. Im really sorry and Im trying to nut out why.