A typical campsite in a rural town's public park.
Bicycling mileage varied from 40-100 miles per day depending primarily on wind and temperatures early in the trip.
Gordon invited me over for conversation in small town Streeter, North Dakota. My favorite piece of bike touring is the people you meet.
Cooking dinner on a small portable stove after a long day of riding with barefeet.
Tracy offered me food, a lift, and a place to setup my tent for the night at Teddy Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. She studied ancestral living skills and recently competed on the survival show, Alone.
Another example of an interesting place to sleep for a night somewhere on the prairie.
Lunch in a field.
An old church along the road.
An old one-room jail along the High Line in Montana.
My friends Anna and Walter joined the bike tour to Alaska near Glacier National Park.
A roadside view of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta or British Columbia.
Finding a hidden place to sleep for the night.
A glacial lake in the Canadian Rockies.
Riding into town near Canmore, AB.
Walter had to get the photograph at famous Lake Louise.
Our first sign that we were getting closer and headed in the right direction. Alaska!
A farming family kindly let us stay in a warm cabin during a wet spell in British Columbia.
One of many places we stayed for free along the bike tour.
The leaves started to show their fall colors along the infamous Highway of Tears between Prince George and Print Rupert, BC.
Our first sign that winter was on its way was a surprise snowstorm that dropped six inches of snow overnight in the Rockies.
Shortly after Anna’s hospital visit from the bike accident, we boarded the ferry system from Prince Rupert for Juneau.
The Inside Passage ferry system shuttles visitors and even cars from Washington all the way to Southeast Alaska.
A beautiful sunrise from the top deck of the ferry along the Inside Passage.
The ferry ride from British Columbia was serene and beautiful. It took only a few days to reach Alaska.
Walter and I reluctantly decide to leave Anna behind to heal in Juneau after her bike accident and continue riding onwards from Haines to Anchorage.
Walter setting up Settlers of Catan at a rest stop near Haines, Alaska.
Walter and I met Linda at a rest stop along the side of the road and she invited us to stay at her extra cabin nearby for the night.
Up close and personal with grizzly bears feeding on salmon with impromptu tour guide Linda outside of Haines.
A public use cabin Walter and I shared with a fox for a night in the Yukon.
A bluebird day of bicycling on an empty road in the Yukon.
A sunrise lights the mountains near Kluane National Park.
Walter and I finished the final stretch of the bike tour by hitch-hiking because of cold temperatures and snow in Interior Alaska.