Biking Across the U.S (hopefully)
Interior - Keystone 95
Daylight was running out when Ansel, the volunteer firefighter/community watch for Interior found me, saying most bikers just slept in their park... even on top the picnic tables. Sweet, no having to set up and break down a tent. Highway 44 runs parallel with the badlands, so for the first thirty miles of the AM ride I got to keep the badlands to my right while riding through similarity eroded hills and mounds. After that, it was pretty bleak and bland until Rapid City. Someone must have biked these parts before though, because every 10ish miles were phrases like 'crush this hill' or 'bike on' written in chalk. I forgot how awful city riding is until I came to Rapid City. Some dude yelled at me to ride on the sidewalk... but there wasn't a sidewalk next to the road. Maybe he was misinformed, but I'm pretty sure he's just an ahole. After cooling off in a Wal Mart I made the awful, hilly, leg crushing climb into the Black Hills. While up in Keystone having the most "okayest burger" (that's how they advertised it for $3) I struck up a conversation with a local, saying I probably wouldn't make it up to Mt. Rushmore since it's an excruciating three mile climb. So she loaded me in her car and drove me up... with a schnapps bottle chilling in the middle consul and a couple empty beer bottles in the back. I really wanted to see Rushmore... so sometimes you just gotta make concessions. I lived, thankfully.
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