Monthly Archives: July 2015

After our longest day on the trip so far (Tim walked over 39 miles, Rebecca biked over 51), we slept-in at the campground in Gothenburg. We also enjoyed a breakfast of leftover marshmallows and graham crackers from the smores. We … Continue reading →

We woke up next to a baseball field in Sutherland, Nebraska, and continued walking along the Lincoln Highway. We had to leave before sunrise to avoid detection as we had just set up our tent in the middle of the … Continue reading →

The train tracks we camped next to in Big Springs didn’t wake us up as often as we expected. Only four or five times. This was our first town in Nebraska, and Colorado took 23 days to walk through, about … Continue reading →

We woke up to an amazing offer of breakfast from Lisa (which of course we accepted) and headed back to Proctor to start the walk for the day. We would hit our last overnight town in Colorado today, so we … Continue reading →

We woke up in Brush and Rebecca decided to go to the local bakery to get donuts. Unfortunately, all the sites in small towns tend to be closed on Sundays (and we forgot it was Sunday) so we resigned ourselves … Continue reading →

We woke up in the trees and walked the last 6 miles into Roggen to mail away Rebecca’s bag and wait for Brian to meet us with the bike. Roggen was a pretty sad town with a restaurant that wasn’t … Continue reading →

We packed up and headed out (not as early as we would like, which is typical for us now). Remembering how heavy our packs are we wondered if we sent enough home, there must be something we don’t need. We … Continue reading →

We stayed up late talking and catching up on everything new in our lives with Rebecca’s high school friends and slept in a bit in the morning. Rebecca made breakfast burritos and we set out to explore the city of … Continue reading →

We woke up with the sunrise, Rebecca fully rested and Tim struggling with a bad night of sleep. We had arranged with Rebecca’s high school friend to be picked up in Golden, CO so we only had to make it … Continue reading →

We packed up the tent right as the cold, wet rain started to come down and headed out, eating oranges in the downpour as we climbed the mountain. We silently cursed our luck and worried about the blizzard that was … Continue reading →