Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire On the road again.

Hmmm..... 30+ summers gone by, I think I worked like 25 of ‘em.

The thing is, I ain’t got all that many left, all we get to keep when we check out are our stories, and I got an audience. If I can pull off cool stuff pretty late in life, some of them will too.

Rez Indian- Hey brother what tribe your from? Birdwatcher- well I was beat up by some Crowe Indians so I’m Crowe. Rez Indian- standing there at a loss for words..

Sounds like he just found his ride home to Texas..

Ok.

Birdman,

tip of the hat to you, for having a great adventure this summer. for a lot of people summer is like the rest of the year, only hotter. a few people sound down right upset you are having an adventure. mebbeso they aren't having as much fun as you.

anyway, keep on being Birdwatcher, not many could tackle the job.

I'm convinced none would enjoy it as much as you do.

They don't even sound like they're having much fun at whatever it is they chose to do.

Adventure? he literally rode his bike 300 miles then hitched a ride to Montana via car... he's about to pedal his ass over to kaywoodie AO and throw his bike in the truck and birddog it all the way to Texas..

If this was an adventure I need to be writing books.

The Blackfeet love the Crow up in Browning

Very peaceful loving tribe

Yep that's why he needs to mention that too them.

It don’t matter, the Indians is pretty cool already, they don’t need me.

But here’s how it works;

A) I rode my bike all the way through friggin’ Yellowstone.... that mission got compromised, for good reasons, but compromised.

OK, next best thing......

B) I rode my bike FROM friggin’ Yellowstone..... gonna know for sure in a week if that’s gonna happen, depends on how fast if at all I can get through the mountains.

Now thanks to my buddy K there’s choice C) a ride home from Grand Lake, hey just 850 miles from here...... piece of cake....

Indians everywhere like me because of my charm and good looks

Anyways it was 500 miles Dude, just getting warmed up, which I’m gonna need up here in friggin’ cold Montana....

riding 1000 miles with Kaywoodie ought to be a summers worth of stories!

Hey BW:

I'm tipping ,my hat to you from down here in Georgia. One way I have of looking at the world is to consider it is made up of two types of people: be-ers and do - ers.

Be-ers just want to bebe someone, usually leading with their mouths, problem is: they don't seem to accomplish much except perhaps in the vacuous recesses of their own minds.

Be-ers seem to comprise at least 80% of the population, maybe a higher percentage. Easy to spot, they often can be identified badmouthing others.

Do-ers on the other hand, do things, and get things done. A much smaller percentage than be-ers.

And you are a do- er. The hecklers here act like be-ers as far as I can tell.

I'm a couple years older than you and find inspiration in your story. I'm thinking that my climb to over the 5000M mark (a little over 16,000 ft) of Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador this spring was not as daunting as your trip, and certainly less of a marathon.

Anyway, thanks for sharing.

Blu C

Thanks for the kind words. I’m pretty sure 79S has one and lost some brawls in his time, maybe up here in Montana.

Meanwhile on this bike thing it’s interesting.

When most folks see a bike tourer loaded down with bags tooling down the roadside they don’t think “wow ya gotta be tough to do that”, mostly they get irritated by the bike on the road.

OTOH when it’s someone they know doing it they’re more inclined to think “dang that must be tough”.

Meanwhile the one doing it will tell ya it ain’t hard it’s mostly a question of having the time.

OTOH again I’m a tad uncertain about the next leg of the tour because I don’t know this country. But people do it all the time so it must be OK.

Either last summer or the one before I talked for a few minutes with a couple of younger women bicycling cross country together. They'd stopped at a local Dollar General store to pick up a few necessities. They said they started their trip on the SE coast and were headed west. As I recall, one said she was headed to up around where you are now and the other said she was going all the way to a NW coastal state.

Several years back I talked with a man in his '50s (he was a school teacher, as well) who said he was bicycling cross country also. Said he had his bicycle and traveling gear shipped out to Washington state, then flew out there and started his trip from there and was headed back to NY state where he lived and taught school. As I recall he said he swung down through the SW states partly to see country he hadn't seen before and partly to avoid trying to pedal over the mountain ranges out west. Said he was hoping to make it home in time to rest up for a week or so before the next school semester started up.

We generally get quite a few cross country bicyclist pass through this area ever summer riding anywhere from singly to groups of several traveling together. A Protestant church in a local town hosts touring bicyclist needing a little R&R break. They can cook a warm meal, rest up and sleep inside with A/C, watch TV, shower, shave and wash clothes, etc, while there. I've seen as high as about a dozen or so there at one time.

Apparently there's quite a few folks of all ages and backgrounds that are into cross country bicycle touring nowadays.

I'm waiting to see how many miles per day these guys ride a bike in summer...

Hang in there Mike!

Hey Syc! I’ve got one of my old muzzleloading buds with me too! Remember that duo in the Muppets, Statler & Waldorf? Well, that’s us!

By Gawd, Clark! I don’t need no stinkin’ velocipede or Penny/Farthing to do that! I got an F150!!

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Excellent! <in best Mr. Burns' voice> :-)

John