Hey everybody.
If anyone is actually reading this (other than you Mom), or attempting to, you might have noticed that I have been posting very little lately. This is due to two reasons. The first reason is that I have been very busy. For some reason, even though I don't really have much that I have to do each day, I never seem to time to do anything except eating, sleeping, and biking. The second reason is because I see the wisdom in these words spoken by Voltaire, "The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out." So basically I am just trying to keeping from boring any one.
But anyway, there has been a lot of exciting things happening recently. Two nights ago I woke up from the floor of a womens bathroom in a National park. A week ago we stayed on a legit farm, and I got to ride a horse, a tractor and meet Isiah's wonderful family. Most of these events have already been extensively journaled so I wont repeat all of the details, but long story short North Dakota has proved to be much more exciting than I expected, although I was not expecting much.
We have also gone through some very interesting areas. The Badlands in western North Dakota are like nothing I have ever seen before. They remind me of New Mexico. We have also spent a fair amount of time going through Native American reservations, most of which are a little different from everywhere else. New Town especially was strange. It is in the middle of a tribal reservation, and it is currently also in the middle of a huge oil boom. Every thirty seconds or so we were passed by a extra long tanker truck. I wandered around the town a little bit, and basically the only people that I saw were poor looking native Americans, Bikers (the real kind) and almost cartoonist looking oil-men.
As always, our hosts have been almost ridiculously generous. I am a little worried that something might happen to my bike because we are well over 200 or 300 miles from a bicycle shop. But at least all of this has given me things to think about while I ride my way through the mind-numbingly boring northeastern part of Montana.
1 comment:
hi John,
This is somebody else's mom (Katrina's) reading your post (and signing on with Katrina's older sister's address). It's fun and informative to hear your take on the trip. I wonder if being a serious, competitive cyclist makes this day-after-day riding any easier - or more difficult. I guess boring scenery is boring any way you look at it! My high school French teacher rode a bike through the Alps and told us afterward, "When you're driving through them, you see the Alps. When you ride a bike you see them Alp by Alp by Alp by..."
As they say in France, Bonne Continuation!
Caroline Roi
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