It's awfully nice to ride on dirt roads with no cars blasting by you all the time, and camp in quiet places with no trains blasting and no trucks blowing by.

As a solo biker, though, you sometimes get lonely on those dirt roads and want to find your way back to where there's a cafe for breakfast and conversation. Or to an established campground where somebody will come over to chat.

It's kind of a tradeoff - I go back and forth. I've been on the paved roads a few days and am kind of thinking about those rough dirt roads in Central Idaho.... But I don't know whether there's any place to resupply up there, so have to find out more information.