Cancer is one of those things that touches everyone in one way or another. When Deb heard that one of her friends was running a charity stamp event in Horsham she was keen to go and support Pam. The event – ‘stamping out cancer’ was raising money for their local hospital so people could get…
When we started planning this trip I had originally intended on hanging onto the bike for an additional day so that I could do an Iron Butt 1,000 mile in 24 hours ride – that way I’d have a certified ride in the US as well as Australia. However in my route planning for the…
It’s hard to believe that today is our last day on tour. But we have time to fit in one more unique landscape – the Rocky Mountains National Park in Colorado. Today’s ride in the National Park was a free ride – ie we have a meeting time and we are free to do our…
Today’s scenery primarily consisted of lots of open roads with long flats and rolling hills with low sage bush, but we were also treated to deep gorges of Flaming gorge in Utah. It was also another three State day – Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. Today we spent time exploring the Flaming Gorge in Utah from…
Today we had breakfast in Wyoming, coffee in Idaho, lunch in Utah, and dinner back in Wyoming. It was nice to get on the road before it got hot today and get some miles under our belts. Today was very much about covering miles and we used a combination of high speed freeways with 80…
The scenery leaving Cody today was really interesting and such a contrast to the scenery we went through further north. I was just thinking about it when Deb mentioned over the intercom that the scenery was dramatic. Yes that’s the word I’ve was looking for – dramatic. Yellowstone NP is about 80km from Cody and…
After our little slide yesterday we were certainly ready just to have a day off the bike. Today we only really had one activity pre-planned and that was a rafting trip down the Shoshone river on the edge of Cody in the morning. We nearly pulled out of it as Deb was sore from our…
