Lewiston/ Lewistown... What's the Difference?

In answer to the question above, the obvious answer is, 500 miles. We started a nine-day stretch in Walla Walla, Washington, riding over the grade to Lewiston, Idaho ... our first century ride of the trip, by one tenth of a mile. And today, we rode from Stanford, Montana to Lewistown, Montana. That makes for nearly 500 miles on the road, and the bulk of the climbing for our trip already out of the way. We crossed the Continental Divide, and now begin the long gradual descent to the Mississippi River, then along Lake Erie to Niagra Falls, and at the end, New York City.

How do we fuel all that riding? Well, for starters, here's our breakfast from this morning:

A bowl of hot Samurai Cereal, topped with a variety of nuts, fruit, yogurt, etc., and a mug of hot coffee (for me, not for the boys). Also, some hard boiled eggs, fruit juice, energy drinks, energy goo, and still it's hard not to loose a bit of weight. By the way, the Samurai was donated to us by Janice Tower, an endurance athlete and coach from Alaska, who fortunately happens to be a friend of Pat's. 

After breakfast (or after dinner, or on the road, or whenever the fancy his them), the boys have decided that they need to do more than just ride a bike from the Pacific to the Atlantic in order to stay awake. So Pat and I sit back in our lounge chairs and enjoy lifting an occasional adult beverage while the boys go through their fitness routine.

This was during an overnight stay at the Judith Basin County Fairgrounds in Stanford. Shortly after this, we were on the road. And Bryce, you've got to learn to keep your back straight. No sagging...that's my job! Or Pat's.

Here I am riding through a bit of road construction near Belt, Montana. You can tell it's me because who else would be wearing a rainbow sherbert hued Hawaii Bicycling League jersey out in the middle of Montana?

My own camera is broken, so I've been using pictures taken by others on our trip. But I can still take good pictures if I add in some special effects! Here's one last picture for today, showing an impressionistic view of Jonathan about to go down the last of the big hills before we hit the wide open prairies stretching out in front of us!