2008 Ride

2008 ride, 3000 miles

Began in Needles California, February 2008. South to Blythe, east into Arizona-Phoenix, Sedona, Flagstaff, east again in to New Mexico- Albuquerque, Pecos N.F. Raton. Colorado’s southeast corner. Kansas- Garden City, Nicodemus. North into Nebraska-North Platte,  Alliance, Chadron. South Dakota- Edgemont. Wyoming- Newcastle, Moorcroft, Rockypoint. Montana-Broadus, Forysth, Roundup, White Sulphur Springs, across the Rocky Mountains into Helena, then north into Ovando, Seeley Lake and Kalispell,  Home to Trego. Arrived November 5th, 2008

July 8^th, 2008, journal entry

Bernice is in Springfield , Colorado,  nearly to Kansas. She writes:

This is a mail pickup and 4 day lay over. We rode steady from Cimarron, N.M. and in great heat and long flat open stretch’s that make the days go slow and laborious. Yet we have arrived and have been greeted warmly by the community, I will give a talk at the senior center tomorrow,  We are camped at the fairgrounds and are taken here and there by an elderly couple that are enjoying the oddity and excitement as they must tell everyone we meet about this “lady long rider”

Bernice is past the halfway point of this year’s ride. With only four months left to go, she gets closer to home in Northwest Montana every day.

Although speaking engagements haven’t been as plentiful as hoped, she still feels a connection with those she meets, stays with, stops and talks with. She says she still feels the strong desire to continue long riding, and tells us, “There is nothing else I would rather do.”

Your Lady Long Rider

For more information on this ride, please visit the ARCHIVES section, or visit the Flikr Account which has many of my photos to browse through!