Howdy ya'll! Long time no see right?! Sorry it's been so long but we have been passing through towns faster than I can remember them. By this point we have made it safely out of the rocky mountains and into the arid plains of eastern Colorado. It is on one hand exciting that we have been able to move into some differing landscape but at the same time it is getting hot much earlier in the day and there is never any point to rest, just pedal pedal pedal. But this also means our course has changed to almost due East and we will be covering land much faster, already in the past few days we have started to average more around 70 miles a day rather than the 50 or 60 we were doing before.
          On some unfortunate news our friend Sam, who we had picked up in Yellowstone park, had to fly home. In a moment of great excitement he acted too fast and took his bike off a jump at the Frisco adventure and skills park. He ended up nose diving, flipping over his handle bars and breaking the left collarbone, quite badly. We were able to drive to the hospital where they got an x-ray and heavily suggested surgery, the bone was separated enough that it would likely not be able to pull itself back together and he would likely have problems with the healing. It is unfortunate but he took it well and has been able to happily re-unite with his dog back in Anchorage Alaska.
          There is much much more that has happened but I am afraid most of it will have to wait for those one on one moments when I am able to much better relate the story. But to make up for it for now here are some photos!

Squiggles, our friend Kingsly's dog

if you can read it at the bottom it says 100, my first century on this trip!

thats how they make ice cream right?

a beautiful body of water

the newest addition to our team

that's really tall

it wasn't thaaaaat hard

Squiggs is awesome.

taaaaaadaaaaaah