• Myron Bontrager
  • Dana Bontrager
  • Myron Bontrager
  • Dana Bontrager

Bike Trip now Western Tour

A 41-day adventure by Myron & Dana Read more
  • Last day before the Last Day

    October 8, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    I’ll keep it simple; we went to Smoky Row Coffee shop and had some drinks and bite to eat. Then we went to Zanzibar’s Coffee Adventure. We had a cinnamon roll and drinks. This was a fascinating coffee shop with the roaster and coffee bags in the dining area. Funky but pretty cool place. Then we went to the Pappajohn Sculpture park, then to Ritual Cafe and had lunch and shared a mocha. Then we took naps and headed out to Nite Hawk Bar and Grill. The Nite Hawk was located about 9 miles from the High Trestle Bridge. We then parked about a mile from the bridge and enjoyed the lights on the bridge as the sun began to set.

    We are now chilling a bit before turning in for the night.

    Here ya go.
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  • Home

    October 9, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 14 °C

    We had a simple plan today; just get home. We got on I-80/74 and headed east. We did find a coffee shop in Ottawa, Ill. called Jeremiah's Joe. It was a pretty cool place and bought some drinks and several snacks and kept on heading east.

    We left 6ish weeks ago with a plan in place that got scrapped quickly and we needed to improvise. In the end we hit 15 states, traveled nearly 7000 miles and visited 25ish coffee shops, saw hot deserts, tall mountains, grassy plains, a burning corn field, and buffalos, and so much more.

    So long, it has been real!
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    Trip end
    October 9, 2024