Places NOT to visit and info etc:

Places NOT to visit and info etc:

Coal trucks page 27 of Ryans blog, popeye town too, also bad
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http://www.gonnaridemybike.com/page/5/

Jackson is not a cyclist-friendly town
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http://www.transamericatrailcycle.com/2008/05/freaksville.html

“I am in a scabby hotel in a scabby town full of
scabby freaks -Jeffrey City, Wyoming. I don't even have the basic
hotel essentials such as TV or wifi”
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http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=1r4vFZo&page_id=216669&v=BY

“by 10:30 we're checking into the worst dump I've paid for that calls itself a motel. FYI, don't stay at the Traveler's Inn Motel in Pueblo. The sheets are stained, stinky and dirty. The bed is terribly uncomfortable. It's the kind of place you don't want to take you shoes off in.”
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http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=1r4vFZo&page_id=191835&v=Em

“DO NOT even bother to try to stay here: motel at Cave in Rock. See previous picture!”
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“Yellowstone - and the hotels in the parks cost almost $200 a night!”
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Coal trucks aren’t a big issue. There are maybe 2 stretches of a few miles with them on but that’s all. Just ride close to the kerb and you’ll be fine.
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http://enormousbikeride.blogspot.com/2009/08/saturday-sometime-in-august.html

“Between Rawlings and Lander are miles of nothing and the only town (well, an ex-uranium mining town with a population of 50) is Jeffrey City, which has 1 cafe. Mum and dad got there before me and warned me the woman running the place was a bit hard work” Avoid like the plague
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http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=1r4vFZo&page_id=234390&v=7A

“Arriving in Jackson, I very quickly realize that it's a tourist town. The kind of tourist town that takes advantage of tourists and charges them nickel and dime for even the crappiest of motels.”
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“It took me about 6 hours to do 70 miles, with no bags. I had to cycle hard downhill, which wasn't a satisfactory state of affairs. There was a clue in the names of things though...Wind River, Wind Ridge, Wind River Indian reservation ”Wyoming VERY windy