After last year's 50-something's Utah Cliffs Bike Tour, Harry mentioned that he had heard that Adventure Cycling were in the process of putting together an off-road route in Idaho which tried to include many natural hotsprings, as well as some substantial singletrack touring sections. We (Harry, Vicki, Jim, Pip and I) agreed that would make an awesome trip and eagerly awaited publication of the maps early in 2014, upon which flights and holiday dates were booked. Idaho is not the easiest place to get to from the UK, even more so when traveling by bike. As Pip is not a keen flyer and also because Virgin Atlantic fly your bikes for free, we decided to fly again with Virgin Atlantic, direct from Manchester to Las Vegas, then rent a Dodge Caravan to drive the 700+ miles to begin our trip in Ketchum, Idaho. Seemed like a good idea at the time of booking, but not being used to such long drives, we were totally exhausted by the time we reached Ketchum on Friday evening, having left Manchester Thursday morning.
We were pleased to meet up again with Harry, who put our feeble 11 hours of driving well into the shade with his 45 hours of driving to get to Ketchum from Massachusetts, and that straight after a transatlantic flight from his vacation in the French Alps.
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