Cycling on Purpose Update!
As of June 30th, Travis Scott (your neighbor at 1305 N Winchester, current board director, and founder of Cycling on Purpose) is in Gillette WY, having completed 895 of his 2800 mile bicycle journey from LL to Indiana!
Below is his most recent Facebook UPDATE:
Another week of riding across the country for youth mental health is in the books and boy was it one for the books. Glad my Uncle Brad was with me. We had a blast and he helped me push through probably the toughest week of the entire ride.
It started in Yellowstone last Tuesday and ended in Gillette, WY today.
We went through a lot of cool towns like Cody, Ten Sleep, Buffalo, and Clearmont.
I’ve seen towns and parts of the country would have never seen or experienced. Cities of 29 and 10,000.
Brad and I both have a new favorite beer we’ll likely only be able to get in Wyoming- Speed Goat by Ten Sleep Brewing.
Speed Goat is a pronghorn antelope which I’ve seen a ton of the past two days. I actually tried racing one today. I lasted a quarter of a mile going 20 mph up an incline before I had to slow down. It went ahead further, crossed the road in front of me, standing in the middle of the road looking at me- almost like it was taunting me.
I met with people in public libraries in Cody and Buffalo and Brad handed out a lot of flyers whenever we went through a town with a library.
We camped at 9,000 feet (after the beast climb).
Had to get tires on both bikes fixed because of slow leaks.
Brad stopped and took part in Clearmont Days- a benefit for their local volunteer fire department- he gave flyers to their town librarian who was working a booth and he also bought three rubber ducks in their rubber duck race down the little river there.
I saw lots of bison in Yellowstone, a moose toward the end of my big climb, and a TON pronghorn.
Cell service was non-existent most of the week and the WiFi in the places we stayed were spotty. I was pretty much off the grid.
I went 86 miles on Thursday and could have gone further if it weren’t for the flats. I never thought I’d be riding over 80 miles in one day this early in the ride.
I climbed over 5,000 feet in elevation Friday to get over Powder River Pass at over 9,000 feet at the top.
At one point during a portion of theset climb my Garmin said my remaining ascent was “infinite.” That was encouraging.
Today, literally in the middle of nowhere- no houses for miles- I had a cool experience with a pronghorn and not even a quarter of a mile after that the words “You Matter” were spread painted in the shoulder of the road.
It was a pretty surreal series of events.
All in all, it was a helluva week and one I’ll never forget.
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