Don’t know how I keep ending up on round numbers. Beautiful ride thru Wind River Canyon until the last 500 feet.

I don’t mind short, well lit tunnels, but these were dark in the middle, absolutely no shoulder (just a curb), and wet. I couldn’t see if anything was on the road or if there were pot holes. Really freaky. I waited til it was all clear behind me, then cranked it into high gear and rode like a maniac. Before I entered, I put my yellow rain gear on my panniers so I could be seen. Overall, a really nice ride.

Broke a record today. 13 more black rubber bungy cords, making a total of 42. And that’s just on my side of the road. Also, one large snake right on the shoulder. And 27 worms (caterpillars, maybe), pencil thick and two inches long all crossing my shoulder onto the highway. One guy got blown over and rolled. Kinda funny, but I don’t know what they were or why they were only in about a 150 ft long area. I tried not to run over them. Can’t see how any could have made it to the other side. There seemed to be lots of traffic, especially trucks at that time. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen. There were prob hundreds, but I couldn’t count that fast and watch the road. Would love to have seen where they were coming from. Now that’s something you’d never see riding by in a car. I’m telling you, the bike is the only way to travel.

Eby passed the 1000-mile mark today at the top of the Boysen reservoir hill. I stopped to rest my butt and there were all these pretty little purplish flowers. Looked them up, and they were one of about 25 different kinds of Loco weed. Didn’t know there were so many.

One thing I still haven’t figured out about Eby is how to really guage his battery usage. In general, the first bar disappears around 25 miles and once in a while close to 30. The second bar disappears betw 20 and 25. And the third, somewhere around 20. It doesn’t seem to matter if I’m going up passes or just using turbo on the flat. On that 80 mile day, I was down to two bars out of 5. I was getting nervous cause I just didn’t know how much I had left and wasn’t sure of the terrain ahead. So if I know I have lots of climbing to do, I work harder and save my assist for when I really need it. As a result. I use ‘salon pas’ to ease the pain. They are aspirin infused patches that you put right on the spot that hurts. So much better than the aspirin pill that takes forever to find the pain.