It's A Great Day To Be Alive

Hey everyone! I am in Casper, Wyoming right now, and it is the second largest city in Wyoming. That means bike shops and internet! Yay! We've had an amazing last few days traveling the country and seeing sights that I never thought I would ever witness. We are now traveling through Wyoming, and the first couple of days were really nice because we cycled thhrough Yellowstone National Park and saw all sorts of animals from bison and antelope, to deer and moose. We also had the chance to see "Old Faithful" which was actually pretty cool. Its amazing when you take a second to actually look at nature, and see what great things are out there.

After Yellowstone, we rode through the Grand Tetons! This was a truly breath taking mountain range. Really. They were huge, snow covered, gorgeous mountains, and they were right next to us! I just had to stop myself a couple times, look at them, and thank god for the opportunity to be able to be doing this great journey this summer. Sometimes it slips my mind what all of us are actually out here doing, and when I stop and think about it, it makes me so thankful that i have such a blessed life. I am so proud to be a Pi Kapp.

Yesterday was an interesting ride. We started off knowing it was going to be over a hundred miles of about nothing. We found out that after the first couple days in Wyoming, there really isn't anything left except little bushes and dry grass. It makes for a fun ride. We did, however, ride past "Hells Half Acre," which is apparently where they filmed alot of Starship Troopers. Lunch was supposed to be at mile 70 on the ride, and we were all very happy about that. We had been making very good time, and with a tailwind helping us, we were doing about 25 mph on the flats. At about mile 65, however, we had a little wreck in our paceline. The second guy in our paceline rubbed tires with the first guy, and the second guy wound up crashing. The third guy dodged it and I hit his bike head on and flipped over my bike. We got off the rode safely, called our crew cheif, and everyone was ok. we just ended up with some bloody elbows and hips and such, and a couple bruises in different places. Also, we had to take our bikes to the bike shop, because the wreck messed them up pretty bad. Thankfully they will be fixed and we can get back on the bike soon. The most imporrtant part though, is that we are both safe and nothing worse happened.

Anyway, I'm going to go hang out with some of the guys, but here are some of the pictures from the last few days:
I just had to take a picture of Beatrice and I passing the 1000 mark.
Passing the Continental Divide for the first of three times.
One of the huge bison that we saw in Yellowstone National Park.
This was just a random owl on the side of a building, but it reminded me of my great girls from Chi Omega.

Jackson Hole had a ton of these arches all around town, and they are made completely of Antlers!
These last two pictures are of my paceline and I riding ito the Grand Tetons.
They were so beautiful, I hope you can tell just from looking at the pictures, but honestly, you had to be there.