The Lewis and Clark Trail 

Lewis, from Sunnyvale, CA, on a biking trip from St. Louis to Oregon following the Lewis and Clark trail, sent me some examples of the spectacular scenery he and companion biker Neal saw as they followed the Missouri, Salmon, and Columbia rivers to the ocean. As Lewis describes the "moose" shot:

"Neal and I had been told of a good moose sighting area about a
mile off the Lewis & Clark bike trail so when we got to the right spot on
the road, we stashed our bikes and hiked the trail along a tributary of the
Lochsa river (in our bicycling shoes, no less!).  When we got to our
destination, people already there said we just missed our moose sighting by
10 minutes.  Dejectedly, we hiked back to the bikes.  Several miles down
the road, we came across a moose feeding in the Lochsa, right alongside the
road, and we didn't have to hike!"

Their trip across Missouri, the Dakotas, and Montana led to the Rockies where the biking got harder and sometimes camping surrendered to motels. As Lewis says:

"Neal and I had "roughed" it in a motel room right alongside the Salmon River in Salmon, Idaho.  The next day, the road to the Continental Divide between Idaho and Montana led along the Salmon river for
a while.  I found this spot along the Salmon river to be scenic and peaceful."

More on this spectacular bike trip later on this site.