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Introduction: A year later

      Pre-Flight: Tackling the giant list of things to do before leaving.

      Packing and Graduation: I can't believe I'm a graduate

      Leaving Boise: Portland bound tomorrow morning!

      False Start: Portland, 5 yards repeat 1st down

Portland to Seattle: First segment of the trip

      First day on the road: Portland to Goble

      New state already: Across the Lewis and Clark Bridge into Washington

      Plans change: Cayuse pass closed!

      Plans change II: County park camping closed for the season.

      Seattle: First big milestone

The Olympic Peninsula: Second segment

      Boat Ride #1: Ferry from Seattle to Bremerton

      Around the Great Bend: Down and up the Hood Canal

      Flat tires #1 and #2: a very successful sort of day

      Mountain biking, on the OP: Lower Dungeness trail

      Mountainbiking on the OP #2: Miller Peninsula State Park

      To Fairholm: Across to the more western part of the OP

      Mountain biking on the OP #3: Mt Muller loop.

      Boat ride #2: Port Angeles WA to Victoria, BC

      Boat Ride #3: Back to the mainland US

Anacortes to Glacier National Park: Third segment

      Into the Cascades: Also, crossing the 647 mile mark.

      First real mountains!: Rainy Pass and Washington Pass

      A surprisingly rough day: Long climb up Loup Loup Pass

      It was supposed to be an easy day: Uphill, upwind, and HOT the whole way.

      Dealing with well-wishers?: an unlikely title

      Ranald MacDonald's grave: no, really

      Short day to Colville, WA

      A strange little town: Ione, Washington

      A little slice of heaven: Fantastic campground in Newport, WA

      Broken spoke: sigh

      Another new state: Enough of Sandpoint, get me out of Idaho!

      Cheap Chinese food and nice people: I like Montana already!

      Stunning day riding

      Long haul to Glacier National Park: I Couldn't stop riding!

Glacier National Park: Fourth segment

      The great wheel fiasco

      A productive day thumbing: hitching to Kalispell and back

      Logan Pass Eastbound: Also, other cyclists, yay!

      Logan Pass Westbound: another spectacular ride over the pass

      CONTINUITY BREAK: Glacier National Park to Arlee, MT

      Missoula, MT: Free beer!!!

      CONTINUITY BREAK: Missoula, MT to Boise, ID

      Negative mileage day!: Net gain to bicycle reliability

      Caliente, NV update: (incomplete)

The national parks in Utah

      Into Zion: When did it get this developed?!

      Zion: A day off

      "Chickens are about the dumbest animals around": I cheated a bit.

Moab and Fruita: Mountain biking interlude

      Almost to Moab: With stop at the John Wesley Powell River Museum

      Arches the First: What shitty light

      Lazy day in Moab: Even cycle tourists need civilization occasionally

      Mountain biking: Slickrock Trail: Also, Arches the second

      Mountain biking: Sovereign Trail

      Mountain biking: Porcupine rim trail

      Onwards to Fruita: Moab retrospective

      To Fruita: where the awesome people are!

      Mountain biking in Fruita: And dinner fit for a king

      The Edge loop: More mountain biking in Fruita

Heading home: the last segment of the trip

      First day heading home: with brewery!

      Joining the Western Express

      Things that go bump in the night.

      Snow?! Surely you can't be serious.: (I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley)

      Continental Divide at last!

      It's downhill all the way to Cleveland from here, right?

      Rejoined the TransAm route: Pueblo, CO, armpit of the state

      The mysterious disappearing Camelbak

      Generally unproductive day: You can't wait out the wind.

      Welcome to Kansas: I'm sure it's beautiful when it's not raining

      Improved weather: a better day riding

      Elaine's Bicycle Oasis

      Making hay while the sun shines

      Wheel rebuilt!

      Crazier people than I: Ultra-marathoners in the Prairie Chicken Capital of the world

      Another night in Eureka: 1640 miles from Eureka, MT, according to Google

      Hot on the heels of Annie and Walter: Also, the use of toothpaste as shampoo

      Last full day in Kansas: Pittsburg

      Drying out after Kansas: Also, I nearly got myself killed

      Westbound Cyclists!

      A fire tower in the Ozarks: Lots of pictures today

      Adopted for the night

      St Joe State Park: Within striking distance of the Mississippi!

      Back on my side of the country: crossed the Mississippi!

      Another fine stealth campsite

      Helpful people everywhere!

      Into Indiana: Next to last state!

      Some days it's just not worth leaving

      Greatly improved weather: closing in on home

      Ohio Welcomes You!: Last state

      Dayton

      Just because you get older doesn't mean you have to grow up: Happy Halloween!

      I was never very good at math: carry the one and ... oops.

      Penultimate day: Nostalgic at the Knob

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