Ms. Walsh's Class

MRS. WALSH'S CLASS

Unmotivated.

Marines - 1968-1970.

Lesson for all of us.

Sky B. - would have hated the 50s.

Don Muchow - ran across America.

A real court case (I liked teaching).

Veterans visit Loveland Middle School.

Emily - my daughter at 14 - type 1.

Adam K. - age 3 - type-1.

Sidney - in pink - age 7 - type 1. Sam - her brother.

Go see America - Glacier National Park.

Glacier National Park - Red Rock.

Glacier National Park - Bighorn sheep.

Glacier National Park - Going to the Sun Highway.

Redwood tree - some are 360 feet tall.

First long ride - 1976 - failure.

Dead Indian Pass - 1999 - note semi truck and trailer, center.

Gettysburg, Pa. - Battlefield museum.

First ride across the USA - Avalon, New Jersey - 2007.

Only the finest motels - Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Kansas - Van Ness County - shrinking population.

Kansas - Two young riders heading east.

Stealth camping - near Leadville, Colorado.

Sarah Brigham - near Jeffrey City, Wyoming - riding in a tutu.

Wyoming - looking back the way I just came.

Columbia River Valley - Oregon - you can pedal along I-84.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon.

My wife doesn't like it when I pedal away - c. 1992.

Practice ride - Florida - 2011.

Eating candy to "prepare" for a long ride.

Acadia National Park, Maine - start of second ride across the USA.

New York entrepreneur. 

Stealth camping - I get arrested briefly - as a bank robbery suspect.

Mike and Kathy F. - she had type-1 diabetes.

Watching a parade - July 4, Illinois.

Powder River Pass, Wyoming - you gain a mile of elevation.

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

Lower Falls - Yellowstone River.

Note people on overlook.

Yellowstone National Park - hot spring.

Yellowstone has thousands of buffalo.

They ran off the road in Yellowstone.

Yellowstone River - full of Cutthroat trout.

Sevier Desert - Utah.

Salt Lake City - statue of Joseph Smith.

Up at dawn to pedal - near Bear Lake, Utah.

Nevada - "Loneliest Highway in America."

Tioga Pass - leading into Yosemite National Park - note white dot on highway.

That's a large RV camper.

Yosemite National Park - lake just off the highway.

Yosemite - bears can rip open a car door.

Looking down from Glacier Point - Yosemite Valley.

Clear stream in the woods.

Motivational note from my granddaughter - 2024.

Starting a third ride across the USA at age 75.

Stealth camping - Maine.

New Hampshire - Kancamagus Pass.

Chris Poliquin - serious cyclist.

Jack Lynch - age 94.

Markos and Haley - pedaling to Washington D.C.

New York - Erie Canal scene - a wedding!

Letchworth State Park, New York.

Erie Canal Trailway.

Big Trump fan - May 2024.

 
Pedaling in Ohio - it's mostly flat.

Neil Armstrong - Man on the Moon.

Loveland bike trail.

Flags standing straight out - center - Michigan.

Lake Michigan lighthouse.

A sentiment I can get behind.

Cookies on call! I am definitely stopping.

Minnesota campground.

Paul Bunyan Trail.

My shoe fell apart - I used unicorn tape.

North Dakota - storm approaching.

Page, N.D. - population 189.

Kenzie, left, and Matt, not shown - honeymooning and pedaling across the USA.

Baby shoes - Plains Indian Museum - Montana.

Emily Gilbert - also pedaling across the USA.

Buffalo hunting - 1830s - a way of life soon to disappear.

"Wheeling" c. 1890.

Bossen twins - Mia and Tory, both type-1 diabetics - Stanford, MT.

Chris Wensel - donated $10 to JDRF - had just lost his wife to cancer.

Shawano, Wisconsin.

Charlie Norton - pedaled across the USA - had been very sick during COVID.

Said the best reason to do the ride was that it was "fun."