Rocky mountains After riding through farmland, farmland and more farmland for weeks, seeing the rocky mountains felt like a relieve (and being used to the alps it also felt a bit like home). The first day then already lead us to the highest mountain pass either of us has ever conquered on a bike (around 3100m above sea level). The landscape in this area is just incredible! That day was one of the few tailwind days and on top of that is was sunny all day long so we flew up the pass and for the first time on this trip we had too much energy going uphill.

Chicago was great but so was the arrival of our new panels. We had mentioned previously some of our solar panels were broken. So, fairly excited we left after a long night of fixing and mounting the new panel. After a not so minor complication with the bike computer (which regulates the motor) - I spare you the technical details - we left the Chicago area and entered the Midwest.

Getting back on the bike After having stayed in New Jersey for a couple of days to wait for some spare parts we were able to get back into our riding schedule and headed towards Pennsylvania. We knew that some parts of the US we were going to cross will be rural and some things would work differently there but when we suddenly started seeing horse carriages instead of cars; that was kind of surprising.