Sunday July 11, 2010

After a restful night of listening to trains roll by within 50 ft of our campsite, mosquitoes buzzing in our ears and our campfire smoke rolling into the motor home we rose before the sun excited to jump into the saddle again with aching muscles and saddle sore butts. We had to peddle three miles to get from the campsite to where the trail started.

Today we traveled a maze of streets, paved, gravel roads, and highways passing through the towns of Whitefish, Columbia Falls and Swan River. We also traveled through farm country. The highlights of the day ranged from seeing a huge bull elk in the trees which turned out to be an elk farm to being thankful that we were not road kill on the busy highway. We rode single file along the highway with Jude in the back with her florescent shirt yelling out, “car”, every time one approached from the rear. In some stretches of highway we thought we had a crow following us,, “car, car, car.” At the end of 47.5 miles and about 6 hours we pulled into Way Fare State Park on Flathead Lake. Where once again our loving wench and her hired hand await us. Also awaiting our arrival is Bill L.’s buddy, Ron Stickney, with his glass of trailer park wine and his super charged Sea Do to entertain us. After a few cold beers Bill L. takes a ride with Ron. He “accidentally” got dumped into the 38 degrees waters of Flathead Lake. Instant Revival!

While we rest and play Pam and Darrel prepare a King’s supper of cheese potatoes thick pork chops garlic bread and strawberry short cake (complements of Ron). With time to have a night cap then retire for the evening ready to take on the wilds of Montana again tomorrow. We have now racked up 156.6 miles on our adventure.