Remember the post One Chick. One Wheel. One Great Divide?
Well, I checked in at Divideby1.com and was stoked to see that they are currently in Montana and look like they are having a great time. They are on their way to becoming the first to ever unicycle the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, a challenging off road mountain bike route put together by the Adventure Cycling Association.

A lot of personality riding around on those unicycles, Matt & Gracie offer entertaining posts with photos and videos that are definitely worth checking out. Here is a brief vignette of their travels so far:

And a snippet of one of their recent blog entries:

total mileage: 618.4 miles (including 31.5 off-route)
average daily mileage (including rest “zero” days): 26
# of continental divide crossings: 4
# of cow pies/splatters in the road: 1,548 (approximately)
favorite trail foods: mac ‘n’ cheese, kit kats, and cola bottle gummies!!
these adventurous sorts of journeys are packed full of learning. bear with me as i share a few of the morsels of wisdom so far:

- a bandana, which quadruples as a washcloth, towel, sun protector, and breathing mask, effectively quintuples as a water filter.
- Lincoln, Montana, through which we rode, was the home of The Unabomber.
- i don’t like spiders, but gigantic daddy long legs that invade my tent make me really freak out.
- lightening my pack is a good idea.
- forget carrying the weight of a fleece top – i’d rather carry a fly swatter!! we have been bombarded nonstop with some combination of mosquitoes bees, and flies (my ankles are swollen from bites… which might actually make them proportional to my body for the first time). you know it’s bad when a regular lunchtime game involves creating piles of dead flies.
- don’t leave your extra biking shorts, socks, and bandana “drying” in a tree as you ride a ways down the road.
- the people who live in and visit the town of Ovando are really nice… except for that one lady complaining about gas prices.
- hummingbirds are eerily attracted to me, scaring me by hovering and staring less than two feet away on multiple occasions. (could it be my pink tank top? or simply another reason i should carry a fly swatter?)

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