Distance - 82.5 miles
The Baurs were unbelievably kind to us and we can't thank them enough for our stay! Our first order of business was to visit the bike shop in town and replace our bike tube stash and restore our chi. James also replaced his back tire because it had a peculiar lack of chi. Next we hit up the laundromat because we never got around to using the Baur's machine they offered to us last night. It's nice to have some clean clothes again I guess.
We pretty much screwed around all morning and didn't get to biking until 2 in the afternoon. However we still did 82 miles! And after 2 weeks of wishing and hoping it finally rained on us! It probably dropped about 20 degrees from yesterday, and the Helena we went to sleep with was not the Helena we woke up to. It was mostly light rain though which was fine. Three things I did not know about Montana:
-there is a small casino attached to every single gas station.
-every single high school mascot is either the cougars or the wildcats.
-1 in 3 billboards is an anti-meth campaign.
Since we started so late we didn't make it into Harrison until 8:15, praying there would be an open grocery store or cafe or something. Alas, Harrison is another 50-190 person town and shuts down at 6:00pm. We considered hobo-ing the dugout at the ballfield to stay out of the rain, but after asking around a bit we were graciously granted floor space in the front room of the community church! So that's where we are, safe and sound, warm and dry! GBA.
- posted by Aaron
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