Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Mt. Rushmore

Originally Posted September 4, 2004 by Chad



Iron Mountain road is an ideal road to ride a bike on. It’s curvy, the scenery is spectacular, wildlife is abundant, there's little traffic and the pigtail bridges keep things exciting. The one drawback is that it’s mostly uphill. I don’t know what our bike weighs with all of our gear, and frankly I’d rather not know, but when we crossed the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming I thought we were done hauling it up lung-busting, leg-burning hills. Iron Mountain road put an end to that delusion.

Our motivation for getting to the top was obvious. We wanted to see Mt. Rushmore, the monument to our nation’s persevering past and optimistic future. When we got there, many of our fellow visitors were more impressed with our bike and our trip than with the monument. We had people asking us where we were going and where we came from every two or three minutes. At one point a group of about twenty gathered in a circle around us to listen to us tell about our travels. Even Abe Lincoln was asking us questions, instead of the other way around.




I decided that I’d tell people we were doing this trip to raise awareness of bicycling as an alternate method of transportation. I guess I was pretty convincing, because even George, Tom, Teddy and Abe decided to dust of their bikes and go for a ride—


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