My Cross-Country Bike Tour

The winds were in my favor today. At one point in the afternoon, I averaged over 20 miles an hour and I got into Lander earlier than I expected.

Tonight’s accommodations are courtesy of the Sleeping Bear RV Park. According to my map, I’ve got about a 120 mile stretch from here to Rawlins (the end […]

Today’s ride put me over the Togwotee Pass. At over 9600 feet, it’s the second highest peak on the TransAm Trail. A westbound cyclist I met a few miles from the top warned me of construction on the other side and of poor weather and road conditions near Rawlins. Apparently, heavy crosswinds had blown over […]

Check out this geyser:

I got off to a late start again because I completely forgot the fix I had gotten myself into yesterday: I spent half the day wandering around the Old Faithful area before getting on the road at around lunchtime.

Later on during the day, I passed through Grand Teton National Park. After […]

I originally planned to pass through Yellowstone in one day. Unfortunately, I seriously underestimated how difficult riding through the park would be—I only cleared 30 miles today. The strange part is that the terrain wasn’t especially difficult, the traffic was only moderately busy, and the weather was a perfect combination of cloud cover and occasional […]

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The headwind today was so strong that progress was like pulling teeth. I averaged less than 9 miles an hour for the first part of the morning. During a water break, Randy shows up out of nowhere and offers to ride in front of me to break the wind. We ride single file for an […]

For the third night in a row, I’ve got a roof over my head. I owe tonight’s lodging to Jesse, who I randomly met outside the library in Ennis and who generously offered to let me stay at his house with his family for a night.
 
Over dinner, Jesse told me that he just graduated from […]

Randy left a few hours earlier than I did this morning. He had heard that the weather was going to be rough. It certainly was. By the time I left Wisdom, the temperature had dropped below 40 degrees and the wind was blowing snow sideways across the road. I had to clear two passes on […]

Note from WeAreStudents Admin Guy:
We just received Xiaoyu’s updates from Yellowstone!
Henceforth, the blog entries will be buffered by brief time periods for the sake of everyone’s sanity (because we just received some of the most insanely stunning media yet)!
Stay tuned over the next couple of days as we unravel this segment of Xiaoyu’s amazing cross-country […]