Spring 1997 - Cincinnati to Yukon
Journals - 29 May 1997
Day 59 - Bowbells, ND
29 May 1997 (sunny; cloudy; warm; mileage = 64.5) -- A - Chris got up and
moved my front Goliath to the rear of my bike and put one of the new tires
on the front. They seem to be working fine. Much better than the knobby
tire! We were up late last night talking to Tom. We exchanged some
addresses -- we gave him Craig in Minneapolis and Dennis and encouraged him
to visit Cinti. He gave us some names of people in Oregon (where HP is) and
the location of his school, etc. Hopefully, we'll be able to work that in
on our southward trip. Once we left, we had some minor headwinds but
decided to proceed into them toward Canada rather than try to avoid them.
The terrain was drastically different than we've been seeing. We were in a
valley surrounded by rolling, mountainy hills. We stopped to talk to some
cows. They all came over to the fence and asked to have their picture
taken. Up on the hills, the high school classes had made big rock
formations into their grad year. We climbed up out later in the day and it
was really flat up on top. Earlier in the day, we stopped for a few hours
in the Carpio park which was really nice. They had some hook-ups for
camping and some sports equipment -- b-ball, volleyball, etc. -- with a box
holding the balls, so we could play with them! We didn't have such luck in
Kenmore. They had a neat Danish windmill (the only one in America), but no
camping in the park. We went on to Bowbells and had the best riding of the
day. Deserted roads with neat scenery, great temp., etc! Got to this park
and got swarmed by mosquitoes. WOW! I got like 15 bites on my butt alone --
OUCH!
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