Day 38: Lander to Dubois

Total mileage: 81

Breakfast: Holiday Inn Express, on the west side of town, with our fellow touring cyclist, Peter. We taught him our sneaky ways; he was delighted and amused. (This was our favorite continental breakfast so far.) We were sorry to leave Lander so quickly, but glad to get on the road before the sun got too aggressive.

Morning Riding: beautiful, along creeks, through a twisting canyon, with changing colors of rocks (red!), and lovely mountains.

Thankfully the road wasn't as straight as it looks in this photo!

Encounters: we met up with three touring cyclists! Two of them were traveling together at about our speed, so we stayed together for a lot of the ride into Dubois. It was fun to ride in a bigger group and to hang out with some new people. (Suddenly we were feeling very social, meeting all these other cyclists.)

Afternoon Riding: post lunch, the canyons were still beautiful, the colors still stunning. The wind picked up (of course) and we started trading off leading into the headwind. We split with our new buddies at lunch, then fortuitously found them about ten miles from Dubois. After a nice stretching break, we rode most of the way into town (through the wind) together.

Pie: this pie was better than the famous pie at Cooky's (though the coconut pie there was very good). If you're ever in Dubois, WY, we highly recommend the Cowboy Cafe. The food looked excellent, too, even though we didn't buy anything else.

Yum, yum, and more yum

Dubois: we really liked Dubois! It had a somewhat bizarre Western flair to lure in the tourists, but seemed to be a genuinele nice place to live. Cars (drivers, really) were very polite to us on our bicycles, and even though there were many tourists, there were also clearly real people who like living there. The coffee shop the next morning was excellent, too, both for the company and the coffee (and the warmth). It had been a long, long time since we had tasted good coffee!