Over the mountain and through the desert

We departed Laurel at Jackson Hole and after a quick walk through the town we slept on the lawn of a church near the town square. We woke up that morning to sprinklers and attempt to keep as much of our gear dry as possible. Breakfast was cream of wheat with crunch berries in a parking lot and rode out of Jackson which was fine until we hit a downpoor of rain 20 miles out. It was good way to start the whole biking process again.

Since a lot has happened since then I will go over a few things that happened en route to Texas. After the stop over in Jackson Hole we traveled over the continental divide for the first time at the togetee pass just over 9000 ft of elevation. We got snowed on for about 4 hours but with our grocery bags over our shoes and bright yellow dish washing gloves we made it over. From there we rode down into the middle of Wyoming and within minutes we were in painted rock deserts. After several hundred miles, and a few adventures in Lander we reached the town of Rawlings , Wyoming. We coincidentally met up with our old friend Aaron who happened to be driving through that area while on tour with his band. Our next destination was Boulder, Co to our next friend Becka. We had a nice stop in Fort Collins, where we couch surfed with some nice locals, tried some good vegan food and toured about the new belgium brewery then left for a quick ride down to Becka's. We spent several enjoyables days at her place and had a great time seeing the sites with her two roommates, her sister and jeremy. After potentially getting ruffied, mountain climbing the saw tooth mountains, and watching countless bad movies we left the town of Boulder. We then slowly rode down through Denver that nearly got me hit by a car and we're thrown right into a huge thunderstorm that forced us to take shelter in some random warehouse. After a few days of battleing the wind we decided to try our luck at hitchbiking. The idea started as a joke but right when 30 mph winds were hitting our face and another storm appeared on the horizon an unmarked white van stopped by the side of the road. We found out he was on his way to Amarillo our next location. Before we knew it we were hanging out with our dirver, Jerry, and his family in Texas sleeping in his fixer upper house. After a night out in Canyon with his niece and some locals we found out we could continue our hitching experience all the way to Fort Worth where we would meet some of Justin's extended family. After some house work we left with Jerry and his son and found ourselves in Fort Worth coming face to face with some more Texas hopsitality. Now I am staying at Ranch in Cleburne Texas about to shoot some skeet and hopefully see Chad in a day or two.

In case your curious we decided a ways back that we were getting poor faster than we hoped and we were running out of time for the east coast, so we decided to get as many rides as we can in Texas so as to leave time for our travels up the eastern sea board. Sorry for any grammar or spelling errors to lalazy to look back over this whole thing. The first picture up at the top is the grand tetons, the second is in the middle of wyoming during a beautiful sunset, and the last picture us jared perched on a rock up at the flat irons in Co. Hope all is well back in Newbury and if all goes to plan I might be making it all the way to Maine and still be back for Thanksgiving.
see ya