Day 17: Jackson to Dubouis

We woke up today and had the best breakfast of the trip from the eta gamma pi alphas (if I haven’t already mentioned it, Pi Alpha is a distinction given to those who have done a Push America Team event). They had already started drinking and their wives were showing up later. We wished we could spend another day there, but it was on to Dubouis WY.

We racked back to Jackson, and started riding in Grand Teton national park. It was great to ride through such a beautiful place. We had a head wind virtually all day so the front guy in our pace line pulled for only about 2-3 minutes before falling to the back of the line.

We hit some construction we had to rack through because the crews were blasting. We racked about 5 miles up a pass, so we were pretty happy about that, but before we got to the top of the pass we climbed to over 9,000 feet. The downhill was great though, and I hit at top speed of 42 mph. Somewhere going up the pass a person stopped and asked what we were doing, and the donated $100. It’s really great to be spreading awareness and raising more money for people with disabilities even though we have not had many friendship visits.

Once we arrived in Dubouis we rode to the middle school and showered up. In our free time before dinner I walked to the local drug store to get some toiletries and a milk shake, and I took about an hour nap. It was refreshing and I woke up to the smell of our dinner. Dinner tonight was provided by the Cattlewomen once again, and we were able to talk to them for a while after dinner about the ranching business. It was rather interesting.