Ryan Prizio – Biking against MS

Check out the photos I took while at Craters of the Moon. Fantastic terrain!

I have been on the road since July 1, 2010. That’s about 60 days on the road. I have just met up with Randy from California, who flew to Virginia and was traveling the same route I have been for the past 3 weeks. Turns out that everywhere he went, people told him, “Oh there was another biker Ryan who came here a few days prior.” So he has been trailing me for a while now. He finally caught up with me yesterday morning in Fairfield, ID. He walks up to me and goes, “Are you Ryan?” I answer in the affirmative and he goes on to tell me that he’s been trying to catch up with me for weeks.

We rode in very strong headwinds from Fairfield to Mountain Home, ID yesterday. I must’ve picked up some tire wire because my back tire slowly leaked air and would be flat after 45 minutes. Since I couldn’t fix the tube, I would just pump up the tire as much as I could and ride it for as long as I could before another refulling. Randy decided that he would hitch a ride and meet me in Mtn Home. We camped out at an RV park last night.

I have been biking in the worst conditions of my trip since I crossed into Idaho. It has hailed every single day along with 30mph winds in my face and an average temperature of 60 degrees. Not ideal biking conditions but I keep hammering out miles.

I made it to Craters of the Moon national park yesterday. It is a huge collection of thousand year old lava flows that shaped the region and changed its landscape over the millenia. If you look at the pictures below, you’ll notice the hardened lava and some that seem to be still flowing. Very cool landscape but dangerous when hiking.

Shoutout to Dan, Aanalise, the vegan biker and the gentlemen who gave me bananas and apples last night to eat!

I want to thank the people at Arco Advertiser for donating 100 business cards which I can hand out to people to help raise awareness.

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Tags: Cross Country

Got my first flat tire last night while biking through a hail storm. Had to hitchhike into town and got picked up by James from Rigsby. I told him how I just went through the first frost of the trip the night before and he offered me a zero below sleeping bag which is absolutely amazing and so toasty.

I rode in miserable headwinds today and made it to a rest area about 20 miles outside my destination but Ill make that up tomorrow. Since the winds were so strong, I rode to a restricted access entrance to the Idaho Nuclear Laboratory to try and heat up some macaroni but the guard promptly booted me out. Worth a try though. I headed to the historical Experimental Breeder Reactor (EBR-1) which was the first nuclear power plant in the world and met two awesome girls there.

I want to say hello to James and his son, Bruce and his wife, the two gentlemen I met while camping out in Idaho falls and the two girls

Last night I stopped at TroutHunter Lodge after a long day of windy riding. I walked inside and asked the bartender if I could work for a meal tonight since I am getting low on cash. He went in the kitchen and brought out Doug, the manager of the restaurant. Doug was thrown off a little by my request but he handed me a trash bag and told me to pick up all the garbage around the outside of the lodge. After an hour I came back with half a bag full of cigarette butts, bottles, cans and other miscellaneous refuse. I sat down at the bar after thoroughly washing my hands and he told me, “Get whatever you want on the menu. You earned it.” So after weeks of eating beans, soup and potatoes with the occasional dollar menu item thrown it, I had access to whatever I wanted. So I picked the stuffed quail:

Chef Mark Grimes whipped up the most succulent, delicious stuffed quail I’ve ever had. Everyone working at the TroutHunter Lodge were just fantastic and great people. I felt right at home with their hospitality and kindness towards me. Anytime you are in Henry’s Fork in Idaho, do yourself a favor and head over to this fantastic restaurant!

After a week in Yellowstone with Luke, I have biked out of the West Exit towards Boise, ID. I slept in Madison campground in Yellowstone last night where I met Rob and Helen from Australia, and then biked out the West exit. In town I just met up with Kevin and Barb who offered me a place to shower and some breakfast and we shared stories for a few hours. Now I’m off to make some money in Idaho offering my services as a farm hand during harvest season.

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Cross Country Crusader

Made it to Yellowstone last night and met up with a friend from home who is working at Roosevelt lodge. i cant believe home beautiful everything is here. I wish there was beter reception but that is a small quam. I hiked up a mountain behind the lodge and was greated by a huge lake hidden from everything set inside a grove of trees and a meadow. It is gorgeous. Today I wil be treated to a cookout in a huge field and with a large bofire. Since I have no reception aside from this mountain Im curently on, I wont post for another week. Until then, make sure you donate if you havent!