Category: USA

Day 3 Yesterday we explored the North Rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, so today we’d do a more-extensive excursion around the South Rim. This time we took our (mostly-unloaded) bikes and rode them four miles to the parking lot at Artist Point. The viewpoints here all have uplifting aspirational names (Artist, Inspiration,…

Day 2 When I rode my bike from Chicago to Portland, Oregon in 2007, I passed through Yellowstone, spending one night at Canyon campground, one at Norris, and then I was out of the park. I felt then that I had actually spent a bit of “extra” time at Yellowstone compared to many bike tourers,…

This morning’s alarm was closer to “last night’s alarm”, waking us at a record-early 3am. But it was an exciting 3am, not a forced-march 3am: we were getting up to watch the Perseid meteor shower! Even more exciting for me was that it was Rett’s idea; I’m much more of the astronomy/science/cool-shit-in-the-sky nerd than she…

17 days ago I spotted an opening and was able to book one night at a cabin at Roosevelt Lodge. 16 days ago I booked a second night when I saw another opening pop up, even though it was in a different cabin type that would require a move. 9 days ago we decided to…

Hey, there goes that 5am alarm again! But this time the main reason to get an early start wasn’t one on our normal list (usually wind, heat, or traffic). It was because we would be riding through the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone, called the Serengeti of North America, and they say early morning is the…