Article in the Estevan Mercury newspaper

God bless America!

Hey guys, small update from the road. I'm currently in Ashland Wisconsin, USA. Last weeks I pedalled trhough South Dakota (nice prairies again). Then I entered Minnesota, they have trees there which were good for a change. Not so many spectaculair things to see but the people are nice (and big). Today I'm making for Michigan and it will be another couple of days ridin' to the Canadian border again. I'm taking this route to avoid big cities like Detroit. Even I Duluth I accidently ended up on the freeway! After a couple of miles the cops kicked me off but luckily I was not fined! "Respect my authority"! Anyway, I'm still going strong and I'm really "gonna giv'r"! Sorry no pics but I didnt take many exciting foto's anyway. As the crow flies 1543km to New York. I'm at 14985km right now.

Leftover from Korea

In the meantime I reached Minnesota USA, but not many places to get on the web.

This is humor from Korea



Mostly Dutch people will enjoy the humor

I took the privilege to put this on the blog
a "proud" DAD

but where is " Schnausie de wonderhond" en meneer Storm

Rockies and Prairies

Since I've been meeting so many people on the road I decided to write my blog in english. The writing might not be the best but I give it a go anyway! Enjoy!

Near Kicking Horse Pass 

The last weeks I made my way through the rockies which were amazing. I think it has been one of the better mountain ranges so far on the tour. Especially the wildlife was great, cycling out of Lake Louise I saw 4 Grizzlies on one day, and I finally have proof! Cycling in the rockies is quite easy since the highways don't have very steep gradients for the big trucks but the climbs can be long. The weather has been really good to me with just a few showers. I'll let the pictures do the talking....

Bear Proof

After the mountains I decided to make some progress accros the prairies. This turned out to be very easy with a tailwind but one day it was driving me crazy with a strong headwind. On days like this it can be very lonely but there will always be a nice day coming. I took a route around Calgary towards Drumheller which had some interesting rock formations. The prairies are a lot more enjoyable than I expected. The way the clouds are forming here is very cool and everything is so open. But the muskietos are horrible this year because there was a lot of rain.

Hoodoos @ Drumheller

Prairies

Two day's ago I arrived in Outlook, which is a small town in Saskatchewan. I met Chantrie and Jared and they offered me a camping spot in the backyard of Jareds parents house at the lovely town "Conquest". Pat made very good cocktails and the next day we celebrated Canada Day at Lake Diefenbaker with some nice watersports! It's so nice to meet wonderfull people like them.

Grain elevator @ Conquest