The world is our oyster
Week 72 - Spoke Yokes experience some Maine character syndrome and get to grips with some slippery bivalves.
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No matter where you go, there you are
Week 71 - The journey from New York to Boston has some important lessons, a visit to the FIFA World Cup and some fishy pizza.
The pursuit of happiness
Week 70 - America celebrates 250 years of Independence, and Spoke Yokes have cycled right into Manhattan in time for the party.
An Erie feeling
Week 69 - Mark and Ellie earn their Buffalo wings while cycling along the first half of the Empire State Trail in New York State
O, Canada
Week 68 - the race to leave the US was a success, and Spoke Yokes find a safe-ish haven amongst the confusing place names of Ontario
Ragebait and how I learned to love Donald Trump
Week 67 - Ellie & Mark make a burst for the Canadian border through Indiana, Ohio & Michigan. Some valuable lessons are learned as Mark has an inevitable wrestle with An Fear Oráiste.
A pair of Micks on Route 66
Week 66 - the fact that we were leaving St Louis on the iconic Route 66 on week 66 of our travelogue is a coincidence.
Cloudy with a chance of deathballs
Weeks 64 and 65 - The best and the worst of people make themselves known on the road from Sioux Falls to St. Louis
A necklace of human ears
Week 63 - Bismarck to Sioux Falls, and the kindness, loveliness, and weirdness, of strangers reaches new heights.
The million dollar shithouse
Week 62 - a mix of disorientating experiences & extreme weather does nothing to help Ellie & Mark find their groove as they cross from Montana into North Dakota