North Dakota and Montana

Day 24th September 11th

Poor Billy's bike. We were sitting outside a cafe, about to go in and read for a bit when a lovely lady named Yvonne stopped to talk to us. She said shed love to invite us over for the night but she would have to convince her husband. We told her no worries if he said no, but we would love it if he said yes. We went inside and not more than 20 minutes later she came into the cafe and told us that she forgot they had plans for the night and told us it was going to rain and we should get a hotel room and gave us $50! We were astonished. We then spent the night at the super 8 and soaked it up in the hot tub and had a great breakfast. Thank you, Yvonne!


Day 25 Saturday September 12th

We were going to go an easy 40 miles to Culbertson but we ventured out of the way to go to Fort Union trading post. We spent several hours talking with two of the employees there, about fur and tribes and the history of the place. It slowed us down a bit but he was quite funny. 1804, the road we were on turned into gravel so we had to take hwy 5, which was 12 miles of some vicious hills. I saw a big snake and it tried to eat me. It gave me the creeps. We met up withe hwy 2 and got into Montana and went through 13 miles of pain in the ass construction. We ended the day going 70 miles .


Day 26 Saturday September 13th

107miles. My oh my. We got wine to celebrate once we got to Glassgow, in time to ride with a beautiful sunset and lots of lightning(but no rain).


Day 27 Sunday September 14th

I was so sore. We only rode about 45 miles to Saco. The wind was working against us and my muscles were overworked. The mosquitos were so bad in this area, if I was going up a hill they devoured me until I could get my speed up again. We slept about 10 feet from the train tracks which woke us up enough, the ground would shake when we would go by. I put the tent(sorry, Billy) a little too close to the sprinklers so at 2 am when they started we had to move the tent. The night was as rough as the day.


Day 28 Monday September 15th

It was a hot day, we road from Saco to Harlem adn it was 78 miles. We were going to go out to eat in Harlem but all the(the two) resturants closed at 7 and we were a half hour too late.