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Well we made it! 3740 miles boo-yah. It was a great deal of epic fun.  Some of it was sucky.  Joe didn't know it was race, but it was, and I won.  Run the highlight reel.


Favorite Place:  Black Hills, SD: Needles Hwy, Mount Rushmore

Worst Day/Least amount of miles: Wall, SD  rain, headwind, interstate riding/20miles
Top speed: 39mph
Most miles in a day: 104
Most flat tires: Joe 22flats
Most gunshots: Ohio
Highest Mountain Pass: Togwetee 9658ft
Hottest Ride: Murphy, ID 104 degrees
Coldest Camp: Hoosick, NY behind Man of Kent 29degrees
No water towers: Oregon
Prettiest Fall Leaves: MN/WI
Smelliest Day: Chicago, moldy spandex left in the washer + garbage head (dumpster helmet)
Nicest Drivers: New Hampshire
Most snow: Vermont (12in!)













 Cool Bird I saw: Stellar Jay

Wackiest Character: Don Boyle.  Was riding solo from CO to OR.  Practically started crying.




















Things we lost: camping pillow, mp3 cord, headband, allen wrenches, winter gloves, front light, back light, bike pump, cable lock, bike computer, water bottle, cell phone, helmet (found it in the dumpster=garbage head) socks, spandex bibs, camera (recovered)

Thanks to all the people that helped us!!!!
Oregon:Jenny + Adam (Eugene) Miles (Portland), Steven (Bend) Norm the dentist (OR) The couple that bought us biscuits and gravy, Matt who bought us drinks (Vail) The Bike Inn (Mt. Vernon)
 Idaho:Little Orphan Annies Bar and Grill (Caldwell) Bruce+Nancy (Nampa,ID) Brandon and his Mom Jodie (Twin Falls,ID) Ramone (Twin Falls)  Don +Julie (Ammon) Eric Mosbaugh (Elko, ND) Tammy (Twin Falls)
Wyoming Weeze (Jackson Hole)Nate at Fitzgerald's Bike shop (Jackson Hole) Cedar Bar:  Mike, Nate,  June +Scooter (Riverton) Cody + Courtney (Casper)
South Dakota:Harold + Jill (SD) Brad (Rapid City) Lyndell, Wickerville Community Chruch (Wickerville) Don, Lee and Adam (Fort Pierre)
Minnesota:  Wanda +Rodney Coon (Dawson) Mary Coons (Wabasha) Lisa Vonderharr (Minneapolis) Eric Greiner (Minneapolis) Todd + Kathy Mattson (Minneapolis) TikTak (Trock) Paddy (Grumpy's) Leah (Minneapolis)
Wisconsin: Kai (Madison)
Illinois: Andrea Dennis + Adra (Chicago) Jay the sailor (Chicago)
Indiana: Kurt + Amy (Richmond) Bum who gave us 2$ and mystery blue drink (Hammond)
Ohio Lauren + her mom (Mt. Washington) Art (Galena) Jacob + Susan (Owensville)  Kevin (Cincinnati) Carl + Lesley Z. (Batavia) Mandy (Massillon) Lady working at subway who gave us half off (Barberton) Chit-chat Coffeeshop (Massillon)
New York: Anders, Nils + Erika Gunnersen (Westfield) Pastors Howard + Karen Russel (Varysburg) Tinner Soules (Ilion) Lady who gave us peanut brittle (Syracuse) Pauly, Johnny (Man of Kent Bar) TJ's Pizza (Fultonville)
New Hampshire: Dave, Peter, Erin + Greenling (Dover)
Maine: Julian Jones (Portland)
Texas: Myke (Austin) Judy Foster (Austin)

And a special f-you to the following: Old man at campground that wouldn't let us jump in the stream, but then timed us on his watch giving us 15min before he was going to make us pay.  Crabby lady at the Dayville, OR grocery store who was jaded and hateful towards us.  Stone Valley Church- for kicking us out in the night forcing us to ride dangerously back to town in pitch black, no streetlights, with giant hills.

 

American Continental tires for being huge pieces of sheet

. When in doubt.... just add wolves.

What? How did we get here?

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We are snowed in bigtime. Might be finishing this tour on snow mobiles.

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Paul and Timmy, new friends in Hoosick, New York! Stepped into 'Man of Kent' bar for some world series fail. My lycra tomorrow (previous nights pillow) will be soaked with tears of defeat.

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Ey! Wretched day of cold!  We have been riding hard and forsaking our internet updates. Our apologies.  We stayed at a lovely woman named Tinner's house last night in Ilion, NY. We got our own rooms and didn't have to set our tent up in the rain!  That ole nasty fall rain got it's stabs at us today though.  It was 39 degrees and steady from the sky all day long.  I tried to prepare with baggy feet over my wool socks, but no matter, the rain found it's way to my toes.  Joe got another flat, #22, his personal best. After he changed it we needed a serious moral boost and warm-up. We pushed it into town for some pizza with terribly frozen and soggy extremities.  It was pretty dang hard to get riding again after the painful de-thawing process.  I changed socks, rebaggied and we road on. Fifteen miles later toes and fingers numb again. Super sucktime. Joe convinced me to ride on, but I did so with utter scorn and hate. He found humor my crabbytimeface, making me more irritated. Soon after it started snowing.  Ah well sometimes the days are crappy what-can-you-do?  We made it to a motel, threw our clothes in the dryer, watched some World Series (what a game!). Tomorrow looks to be sunny so we are going to kill it to Massachusetts.  

Rain sleet snow ahhhh

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There's beer in this cup. shhhhh.

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Steve is fixin my disc brakes before we kill some mountains. His shop Mello Velo in Syracuse, NY is real good.

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Thanks Niels, Anders and Erika for all the hospitality!

So phone is being a jerk. This is from 2 days ago.

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We are trekin it through New York real hard. Pastors Harold and Karen from Varysburg, NY were awesome to let us postup in there yard with our tent last night! They let us use their charming little church to cook our dindin, as well as shower us with blessings for a safe journey. Great people! We are getting rained on today a little and the nights are getting pretty chilly, but soon(ish) we will be eating lobster and drinking champagne with our friend Julian in Maine!

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Blew through Pennsylvania! Wez in New York!

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Thanks Subway for Baggie Feet and the Half Price

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Ghost Busters Sky

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Ahhhhhh! Lions, bears, tigers, wolves on the loose!

Lions, bears and tigers roaming Ohio after zoo escape | Metro.co.uk

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Rainy rainy day. From morning to night. It sucked a great deal. We ate burgers at the VFW. We rode 59 miles and are now in a motel. Booyah.

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Maria and Miguel came to visit us at the bar outside Columbus!

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Bleebloobahpapa.

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Lauren and Kevin are off the chain! Much much love.

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Rad

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Joes mean ole dog, that I love.

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End social media!

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Playing frisbeer with Joes people in Ohio

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Much love to Amy n Kurt for taking us in after the church kicked us out last night.

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Damn this child

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Wish I could stay at this gas station all day, this old man vacuuming the tile floor is a straight champ.

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Plowing through leaves

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Sickness is 100% of the time caused by demons.

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Last night we knocked on this lady's door who lived next to the church, as so we could notify her we were camping in the churchyard across from her house. She peered out the window through the blinds at us, and after seeing Joe's big ole scruff beard and my dirty face, she shook her head and motioned for us to leave! We camped on the other side of the church.

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There was some standing water on the bike path yesterday and I went straight through it, while Joe tried to maneuver around it. Big failure. He and his bike were knee deep in swamp. Haha.

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Joe dumpsters a new tire

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Doing a little sailing on our day off in Chitown

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These flowers are so metal

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Had to make sure we weren't biking through the ghetto so we referred to this pristine map.

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Apparently toe socks are warm, they also fit in my flipflops at camp. The little white puff ball is for balance duh.

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Kai's cat is a kitler (cat that looks like Hitler)

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Kai is letting us stay at his house tonight. We meet him on the street when I tried to give him the X-Men comic.

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What we are reading

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Fall rules

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Ain't no thang. It's Wisconsin.

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Saw a mole crossing the street today. Saw a giant dead roadkill lizard as well. Perhaps it was this escaped monitor: http://gazettextra.com/r/75/28396/. We are in Wabasha, MN

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Got outta Minneapolis alive! Hard to leave! Love my city and my people. Sconny tomorrow.

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The black hills are amazing. Go ride your bike there!

On your way out stop by Wall Drug. 

 Watch out for dinosaurs!

 Badlands!

There sure are some small towns in South Dakota.

 Small town slammer. Rough joint.

 Freakin hitchhikers.

We got found on the side of the road in Ft. Pierre by Adam who got us a place to stay with his parents, Ron and Lee. We failed at getting a picture.

Breakfast = 1 watermelon  

 The sky is the most interesting thing in this part of South Dakota.

 Someone loves this car.

 50 mile an hour wind gusts are awesome as tailwinds. Sometimes they knock you off your bike if they're crosswinds.

 Dawson, MN! If you are ever here go to the VFW. We met Rod and Wanda who let us stay in their spare room. Again failed at getting a picture of them.

 Salamander!

 Lunch?

 Camping on the side of the bike trail outside of Hutchinson. A couple of joggers took one look at us in the morning and decided to go the other way.

 Minneapolis has awesome bike paths into town!

 Don't even wanna try this move.

 Awesome!

 Minneapolis!

 At night.

 and over there

 Look who's happy to be back in her hometown.

 Premium is the cheap beer of choice in this neck of the woods.

 Drinkin awesome sconi beer watchin sconi football. Sunday Funday!

 Trouble.

They look innocent enough.

Minneapolis has been awesome! We've had fun and recuperated out legs at the expense of our livers.