Day 28 (May 23) - Idaho Falls, ID

The fickle weather held, and the first three hours of today were the best of the trip. There were long climbs (the first was Teton Pass ~ 4 miles at 10% grade over 8,600 ft) and longer, serpentine descents. Imagine the classic mountain stage you may have seen on TV from Le Tour. The remainder of the afternoon had a bit of everything: cold, heat, rain, snow, tractor trailers, empty back roads, hills, flats, headwinds, tailwinds, a calm, people honking and flipping the bird, people waving and giving thumbs up. Now it's time to do some laundry and cook up a quinoa-dried fruit smorgasbord. 9 cycling days remaining - 3.5 in ID and 5.5 in OR....then the return trip will have us hit up several National Parks, where we hope to do a little cycling too, and several baseball games at various professional levels.