Quick Update!

Hey everyone, we are in Rawlins, Wyoming! Woo! It's actually not that exciting here, but we have had some cool happenings over the last few days. After crossing the Wyoming border, we were fortunate to have caught an awesome tail-wind for about 27 miles. It was great, but as our luck usually turns out, that tail-wind quickly turned into a SEVERE head-wind, and also dropped about 25 degrees. It was almost unbearable. And to top that off, the most sinister clouds were looming above our heads, waiting to open up with freezing rain. Turns out, Kyle realized he lost his rain jacket somewhere in Colorado. Not good. As the rain began to pour down on us, we flagged down a pick-up truck with two hunters heading to Riverside (the nearest town), and asked if we could get a lift to avoid the cold. They were nice enough to hitch us in, although we sat in the bed of the truck and basically lost feeling in all of our limbs. Anyway, once in town we sought out shelter and warm food or coffee. While sitting in the Bear Trap Cafe in Riverside, two other touring cyclists walked in seeking the same. We got to talking, and found out the two guys live in Hoboken, New Jersey. Small world. The Bear Trap Cafe also rented out small motel room-like cabins for a decent price, so we decided to split a room with the guys. We woke up the next morning to 37 degree temperatures. Not at all the weather we were expecting. From there we rode into Rawlins, where we are right now and soon to hit the road. We split another room tonight because the local campground was going to charge us just about the same to set our tents up in the cold. This morning the other guys suggested we hop around the motels in town to see if we can sneak a continental breakfast from motels we didn't stay at. That plan worked brilliantly. I think we each had three different continental breakfasts, the Best Western was by far the best! I will be sure to update within the next day or so with tons of pictures, we just wanted to fill everyone back home in on our progress!