Billings, MT - Wild Montana Skies

Vi borjar bli kandisar i omradena kring Minnesota och South Dakota:)
We start to be famous in the areas around Minnesota and South Dakota

http://www.bhpioneer.com/articles/2010/06/24/breaking_news/doc4c237b26b3bcf762571247.txt

For er som undrar hur det ar att cykla genom Badlands sa kommer har ett litet klipp fran den resan:)

From now, the blog will be in both Swedish and English because we want all our American friends to be able to read it, enjoy:)

Tjenare allihopa

Resan de senaste dagarna har gatt ganska fort. Inte bara for att vadret varit stralande och motvinden inte allt for stark utan ocksa for att det inte finns sa mycket annat att gora an att cykla har ute. Vi startade fran Nemo i mandags och cyklade via deadwood upp till Belle Fourche. Darifran foljde vi HW 212. Under mandagen befann vi oss i tre av amerikas stater pa en och samma dag, faktiskt wyoming 2 ggr den dagen. Vi borjade i South Dakota, skar nordostra hornet pa wyoming och slutatde cykla i Alzada precis i borjan av Montana. I Alzada traffade vi Chance som ager en ranch i wyoming och blev inbjudna att tillbringa natten dar tillsammans med hans familj. Vi fick skjuts de 1,5 milen tillbaka in i Wyoming.

Landskapet i Montana ar fantastiskt vackert. grasbekladda kullar sa langt man ser och nu borjar aven konturer av mindre berg trada fram, igar sag vi faktiskt en snobekladd topp soder om oss dar bighorn Mountains ar. Efter Alzada tillbringade vi natten i Broadus och den kvallen var ganska handelselos, vi taltade pa en grasmatta hos en tant som verkade tamligen deprimerad, dock snall.

Vi cyklade aterigen in i Indianland och den har gangen Chyenne och Crow Indian reservation. Vi stannade till vid en kyrka i Busby dar vi tillbringade natten och fick delta i en slags gudstjanst under kvallen. De sista 4 km in till Busby blev jobbiga. Har kan man se ett ovader timmar innan man kommer in i det. Vi sag sotsvarta moln och blixtar 2 timmar innan busby. Nar vi hade 4 km kvar borjade det regan och starx efter det var vinden sa stark att vi var tvugna att hoppa av och putta fram cyklarna sista biten. Cyklingen senare till Billings blev lang och vadret de senaste dagarna har vart VARMT. Hade jag haft en stekpanna hade jag kunnat haft den pa styret och stekt agg medans jag cyklade. Vi belv aven attackerade av hastflugor under ca 20 miles. Det gich at tva trojor trots varmen, en langtroja pa kroppen och en till att vifta bort alla bitande satar med. Maste sett otroligt komiskt ut nar vi kom cyklande:) Vi hivar liter med vatten varje dag och vi maste bara mycket av det med oss for det kan vara ca 6 mil mellan varje lite hala dar det inte finns nat, och jag alskar de:). Det langsta avstandet hittils dar vi inte stotte pa nat var mellan Alzada och Broudus, 10 mil med bara nagra enstaka rancher, eller jo forresten, det lag ett postkontor mitt uti i ingentng ungefar halvgs daremmellan men det var allt.

Nu ar vi i Billings bara ett par dagar innan vi kommer in i omraden med berg och det kommer bli fantastiskt. Har langtat en hel del efter det. Jobbiga backar men fantastiska vyer. For er som vill ha en hum om vart vi ska cykla sa blir det mot Helena, MT, senare Missuola, MT dar vi ska natta hos cowboy Mikes syster (Mike i Nemo) och senare in genom Idaho och Washington State. Vi har bestamt oss for att skippa nationalparkerna, eller i alla fall inte strava efter att hamna i dem. Det blir svart me camping eftersom det ar mycket folk i dem och vi kan omojligt gora reservationer innan for campingplats. Sen har vi ju insett att det ar dumt att hanga med turister nar man kan tillbringa tid me lokalbefolkningen. Att spara nationalparkerna gor bara att vi har en annu starkare anledning att komma tillbaka hit.

Nu ska vi ata lite frull innan vi drar ut i stralande sol och pa Montanas countryroads:)

Hade gott

Edvin & Emil

Hey everybody
The journey the last few days have gone pretty fast. Not only because the weather has been good and headwind not too strong but also because there is not to much to do but to ride the bike out here. We started from Nemo on Monday and rode through Deadwood up to Belle Fourche. From there we followed HW 212th And during the day we visited three states on the same day, actually Wyoming 2 times on that day. We started in South Dakota, cut the northeast corner of Wyoming and ended up cycling in Alzada at the very beginning of Montana. In Alzada we met Chance who owns a ranch in Wyoming and was invited to spend the night there with his family. We got ride in his pick up the 1.5 miles back into Wyoming.

The landscape of Montana is incredibly beautiful. green rolling hills as far as you can see, and now even the contours of the smaller mountains emerge, warrant, we saw a snow-capped peak south of us there Bighorn Mountains is, known as the bear tooth pass. After Alzada We spent the night in Broadus and the evening was pretty uneventful, we camp on a lawn of an old lady who seemed quite depressed, but nice.

We cycled further west and once again we entered Indian Country and this time Chyenne and Crow Indian reservation. We stopped at a church in Busby where we spent the night and got involved in a kind of worship during the evening. The last 4 km to the Busby became annoying. Here you can see a storm hours before coming into it. We saw clouds and lightnings two hours before Busby. When we had 4 km to go it started to rain and not long after the wind was so strong that we had to get off and push the bikes up the last bit. Cycling later to Billings was long and the weather the last few days every WARM. If I had a frying pan, I could have had it on the handlebars and fried egg while I pedaled. 

 We been attacked by horse flies for about 20 miles. We needed two sweaters despite the heat, a long sweater on the body and another one to dismiss all the devils biting. Must have looked incredibly funny when we  biked along the road:) We drinks liters of water every day and we just have a lot of it with us becuse very often it will be about  60 km between each small town were there is nothing, and I love those:) . So far the longest distance where we did not encounter anything was between Alzada and Broudus, 100 km with only a few ranches, or yes by the way, the law, a post office in the middle of nowhere approximately showed up but that was all.

Now we are in Billings just a few days before we get into areas with mountains and it will be fantastic. Have been longing a lot after that. Hard hills but great views. For those of you who want a hint about where we're riding, it will be to Helena, MT, later Missuola, MT where we will spend the night at cowboy Mike's sisters place. (Mike in Nemo) and later through Idaho and Washington State. We have decided to skip national parks, or at least not seek to get into them. It turns black me camping because there are many people in them and we may not be able to make reservations for camping before. Then we have realized that it is stupid to keep up with tourists when you can spend time whit the locals. To save the national parks just do that we have an even stronger reason to come back here.
Now we're gonna  eat some breakfast before we pull out of the sun and at Montana Country Road:)

Have a nice day