Journal entries are just that – the digital copy of my hand-written entries in my journal. If you aren’t interested in the daily details of our adventure, feel free to skip on to the next “regular” post.

After a cold night neither of us are in a hurry to roust out of bed. We read, enjoying the morning after breakfast.

Once it warms up we head out on our bicycles. A mile or so down the road we pass through a bison herd, sneaking through with the line of cars hiding us.

As the road Y’s off we go left and ride until another herd is completely blocking the road. We turn around and take the other branch of the road.

The hills are quite steep and we run out of breath quickly. It also took some time to get warmed up. We feel out of practice now and don’t like it. But then again we haven’t ridden on large, long hills like this before. Iowa had some steep hills, but they were short and over quickly. 

Back at home we start preparing to head out. Ashley grabs a shower and I do yoga to help stretch out my back. Check out is noon and we just make it (not that anyone seems to be checking). We pull over to the picnic area for lunch and then head out of the park.

A quick stop on the edge of Medina nets us a geocache find in North Dakota before we hit the interstate and head on to Billings, Montana.

There we stop at a Walmart and pick up a few odds-n-ends and settle in for the evening.

The passenger blinker is out, so I’ll replace the bulb in the morning.