To make our lives easy after yesterday’s tough day of riding, we skipped camp breakfast and just packed up and rode the quick three miles (well, quick once we made it up the campground driveway again) into the small town of Big Timber which we didn’t quite reach yesterday. ‘The Horse Whisperer’ tells the audience… Read more…

‘The Horse Whisperer’ is the main reason we are riding in this part of Montana. The 1998 Robert Redford movie has long been a favorite of Rett (and her mom), and my favorite reviewer begins his 3.5-star review like this: Low, gray clouds scud across the sky while the grass of a seemingly-endless plain ripples… Read more…

Yesterday’s record-long day allowed us to do a relatively-short day into Livingston. Which is good, because we had some tough hills to climb. I-90 is the direct route east to Livingston, but it has some shoulderless and shoulder-lite sections as it ascends to Bozeman Pass, so it makes sense that Adventure Cycling’s Lewis & Clark… Read more…

Yesterday we set a record for the fastest average speed of our nomadacy. Today, we would set another record, for the longest distance. And it wouldn’t be a cheap record either. We’d finish nearly 1000 feet higher than our start, and there were no giant tailwinds in the forecast, so we’d be earning all those… Read more…

Rested and relaxed after five nights of city living, it’s time to start another chunk of bike riding. We were lucky to even be able to dawdle to our preferred checkout-time (11am) departure, something we haven’t been able to achieve too often this summer. But the weather had conveniently cooled off just in time, so… Read more…

It had been a bit difficult designing the last couple days of this five-day push from Glacier into Helena. There just wasn’t a great stopping point for that fourth night on the direct route, so instead of just not stopping (making a massive 4th day be the final day), I decided to take a slightly… Read more…