Day 26

Day 26
Fort Collins, Colorado

Today we rode over the state line, riding about 60 miles from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Fort Collins, Colorado. Wyoming was tough: 550 miles in 6 days.

Fireworks are illegal in Colorado, so we had to use them before we crossed the border. Our first crew stop was at the border so that everyone who had bought some in Wyoming could use them all before crossing into Colorado. Here is a picture of a windfarm right on the border:


Here is a picture of Wes setting off a smoke bomb in the road and causing a hazardous situation for drivers passing by:


Here is a cop who stopped because of what Wes was doing and almost gave Drew a ticket (the cop is behind the van):


Here is a picture if the welcome to Colorado sign:


Here is a picture of Brendle's bike computer just as the odometer read 5555.5 miles:


We staged up for an arrival around the corner from the Zeta Phi chapter (Colorado State University) of Pi Kappa Phi chapter house, where a bunch of Brothers and friends were waiting to feed us delicious Subway sandwhiches. It was really exciting for Joey and Nick because they are from CSU. Their house was pretty sweet. They had a room full of couches stacked into stadium seating four levels high in a TV room with a nice projector.

For dinner we went to Austin's American Grill, where I had a steak dinner. It was a really nice restaurant. I tried a bite of someone else's buffalo. I think it was buffalo meatloaf. I don't remember. It tasted vey distinctly different from beef. I would like to try some again sometime.

That night we hung out at the fraternity house with some of the Brothers who were living in the area of in the house over the summer. We saw some fireworks from outside the house, because it was the fourth of July. I met an alumni named Brian Day who was pretty funny.

We stayed at the local senior center for the night because Push America doesn't let us stay over at any fraternity houses that have summer residents.


- Posted from my iPhone

Location:Fort Collins, CO