Cold day for the Travelling Salesman.  Crazy winds in the night making the tent smack me in the face again.  Hard to sleep through that.  Very cold, put on all my clothes and tried to go back to sleep.  Woke up to gusting winds and hail.  Very unpleasant.

Today was a day riding with all my thermal gear – including the down vest.  Made moving around very cumbersome.  And even that wasn’t enough – eventually I resorted to putting on my rain mitts just to keep the wind off.   That helped a lot – the heated grips were able to keep up after that.  I think I made a lot more stops than I normally would have – just to

Tried to ‘finish off’ the roads in Yellowstone.  Had to double over a few paths, but very glad that I did.  Especially the last bit along the lake.  The skies had cleared up and it was almost warm and the scenic byway off US20 puts you right on the water.

Not sure why it’s ‘Chinese’…

Old Faithful!

Riding on Water.