Category: Wyoming

Day 3 Unexpected light rain in the middle of the night forced me into the least-fun task of climbing out of the tent in the dark drizzle to cover our bags and other sensitive parts of our bikes/campsite. It’s so un-fun that you think we would just prepare for the possibility every night before going…

Two nights in a Roosevelt cabin, three nights at Canyon Village campground, and now it’s time to move onto our third Yellowstone home. Of the ten campgrounds in Yellowstone that have hiker/biker sites, four of them are closed this season (Pebble Creek, Tower Fall, Mammoth, and Norris) due to continuing effects from last year’s flood,…

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…