Day 12 & 13.... Day 12 was a short 38 mile day with a side trip to the Falls and a team scavenger hunt. The riding weather couldn't have been better. The tailwind, HEAVENLY. The day started with the typical loading of luggage and receiving our list of "things" to find for the day. Our team name....The Freebasers, in honor of Karen, a member of the support crew we have getting us to the Atlantic. Our team left the hotel and planned our route to acquire the items on our list. We stopped at a yard sale to see if we could find an unusual item. We then continued on to the falls. Beautiful location, with a decline that cooled us down. After several pictures, laughs and attempts to spy on each other as to what on the list teams has acquired. We started our climb back up from the falls. Once back on route we enjoyed the heavenly tailwind into the town of Burley.

Day 13 started early with a luggage load at 5:25am because we had 86 miles to cover. Well, once the tailwind started at about 8:30 the miles ticked away really fast. Arriving in Pocatello, ID just shortly after 12 noon and that was with two SAG stops and two missed turns. While in route to Pocatello, we saw the sunrise, a crop duster at work, cows on the open range; which we had to stop on the road to allow them to pass. Once they crossed the street they stood on the side of the meadow and starred at us like we were crazy. Its very interesting traveling across this great nation of ours on a bicycle, the views are so different than in the car. By crossing with this mode of transportation you can get a feel for how vast a land we live in and what the early settlers must have imagined while traveling in wagons or on horseback. We stopped today at Registration Rock, earliest form of graffiti...The early settlers scratched their names and year they arrived in Idaho on this rock. 1802 was the oldest I saw. I can't even begin to imagine what they thought when they arrived. I can't seem to stop taking pictures of the openness, while riding you can see for miles.

Hoping all the pictures come out...