After a slow morning we made our way to a bikeshop to buy a map and get some information trail information on the area. Bend has amazing trail systems ranging from long shuttle rides, to series of stacked loops right out of town. We were sent to Paul's trail system which is single track similar to bavingtown but without the roots, and hills. Fast flowy perfectly build moondust covered single track. MB was running up the small steady inclines in her funk to fog ...

MB has never been to a natural hotsprings. She located a place called Skinnydipper Hotsprings about an hour from Boise. We parked next to the Salmon river and followed a steep but short goat trail up a hillside to the three cascading pools. After we reached the hot springs we were looking for somewhere to get changed. The first and lowest pool was the party pool. We then proceeded to the second pool where there was one man by himself. MB had a lengthy conversati...

After we were finished dropping off the six pack at the bike shop we drove up highway 55 which was suggested by one of the wrenches. Man did they earn that six pack. This was one of the prettiest drives I have ever been on. The views are so breath taking that MB's reaction to the vista we crested not only scared me, but promped her to bang a quick left to stop and take a photo of what we were seeing. This is another favorite small moment of our trip, when MB off...

Today we started our day with a morning full of laundry, showers, and recouperation. Much needed considering we were both pretty much out of clothes, espically biking clothes at this point. We then headed to Boise proper to find George's Bike shop. This is a legit shop. MB's brake leaver/master cylinder has been locking up so we decided to see if they could fix it, and give us information on the trail systems in the area. With a rubberband as a quick fix we heade...

We finally get out of Yellowstone after 9 hours of National Parks and decided we should probably find a place to eat. As we are driving through snow storms which are accumulating on the ground we decide to stop at a rootbeer float/burger joint. It was the best we could do under the conditions in podunk Idaho. We were planning on staying in Craters of the Moon National Forest but after doing some research we learned that it was much like the Badlands, windy all o...