"...we just rode our bikes to Idaho"
It’s funny how much of a role coincidence plays in your life. In our situation how another five minutes here or five minutes there would have rid us of all of the interesting people we have met and gotten to spend time with over the past couple of weeks.
Townsend, Montana
Met a woman named Connie at a gas station who invited us to sleep in her yard.
As it turned out “Mamma Con” had bigger plans, she washed our clothes, fed us (twice) and even made us feel like we were a part of her family. Of course however, not without the help of her cool, calm, and collected husband Les who must have his hands full with a personality like Connie to be married to, and I mean that in a good way. I don’t think there was a dull moment while we visited, it was adventurous to say the least, and whether they know it or not I’ll visit them for sure again one day. I mean heck, we’re facebook friends with them, ahh the eternal friendship of tomorrow :)
Garrison, Montana
Met a family of hard workers, Nick his daughter natalie and wife Jasmine who invited us to have some burgers and beer after we coincidentally ran into them at a campsite 30 miles away from where we met saw them first. Not even 2 minutes after sitting down for dinner their little girl natalie said she wanted to pack us lunch (which was awesome btw) for the next day. She We ended that night with some fireworks which were pretty epic considering I have never in my life been present in the firing of big ones like that before.
Missoula, Montana
When we excitedly arrived in Missoula we were hoping to go visit the local REI and the Adventure cycling association’s headquarters. After eating what we counted to be about 3000 calories of food for lunch (not an everyday thing i swear) we headed out to find the Koa in hopes that we could some how manage to beg our way into the campsite. When we got there we got smackdown number 3 and left ready to head out for an even longer day. As we were filling our water bottles a woman named Jamie who apparently heard us getting denied asked us if we wanted to put our tent on her site for the night. We accepted and ultimately won a free nights stay with Jamie and her family. It was very nice of her to let two dirty bearded boys spend the night.
Diborgia, Montana
A guy named Gary let us spend the night in his yard because it was getting late and we were stuck in the middle of no where Montana. He chatted with us for a long time, opened up an old mobile home that he now used for storage and gave us a restroom to use. The next morning he sent us away with some coffee in hand and yet another good experience with strangers turned friends.
The next day Marcus and I headed out to cross a pretty big pass and found our first bicycle trail of the trip!!! Since we had been cycling on the interstate since Garrison our nerves had been a bit shot from all the cars and trucks wizzing by at 75 mph. It just so happens that the trail we found went 75 across the panhandle of Idaho pretty much from border to border. The only annoying thing about that day was that the wind was so horribly gusty that it kicked dust up into the air for more than 8 hours. So apart from feeling like we were cycling in an post apocalyptic world we were cycling through at times were 45 mph gusts. EXACTLY what we needed. Either way, we cycled almost 100 miles that day and spent the day after doing only a 60 miler so that we can rest up a bit in Spokane.
Thats all dust, we could barely see mountains that were right next to us! taken at 3pm-ish
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