Back to basics (which is camping)

Alright, alright. I know . . . We’ve been spending too much money on hotels. But, there has always been a legitimate reason. I swear! For example:

1. It’s too hot
2. It’s raining
3. The town doesn’t look safe enough for free camping
4. There’s free breakfast at hotels
5. Brooke hates the bag that she sleeps in (it’s loud and noisy, people!)

See? Reasons. Very good reasons, in fact. But as of today, we’re off the hotel kick. We must go back to the one-hotel-per-week mantra. So tonight we are camping. And . . . it’s surprisingly not that bad! Our campground has showers and laundry and a pool and an outside kitchen . . . it’s pretty great. AND it’s not 105billion degrees out, which helps a lot.

So tonight we sleep under the wide open sky of Wyoming (in the shadows of huge mega RVs, next to the busy and noisy interstate, and cozied up to angry hungry mosquitos). This is what bike touring is all about!

On a side note, we actually rode on aforementioned interstate. Seriously, we rode on I-80 for 13 miles. And it was legal!

Brooke

Photos of the sunset that night, right after the rain, hail and rainbow