59 miles, 861 miles total
Steve’s early-day flat was ‘fixed’ by replacing what looked like a perfectly good valve-core with a spare valve-core and his tyre still has plenty of air. Steve has had problems with his pump, it tends to extract the valve-core when he disconnects. Bob and I have recommended that he ditches the pump, but he perseveres (my pump was used for this morning’s successful inflation). We may have to take covert action solve this problem.
We had to do a bit of freeway riding today, but we survived. Between stints on the freeway we enjoyed nice frontage roads with little traffic (and surprisingly good 5G coverage 😀). Views from freeway and frontage were great.
We enjoyed horn-blowing and waves from passing bicycle -friendly motorists (and an Amazon truck).
As we started dinner last night we realized that food and refueling options today would be scarce, so the dinner plan of ham, cheese and salami on tortillas was restricted to just ham and cheese (on tortillas). That way our worst-case lunch today could be salami on tortillas. Luckily (?) we got some very expensive cheese and mustard at a gas station in Drummond, so our tortilla lunch was fairly tasty.
We arrived at our day’s destination thirsty, and aware that, due to adverse circumstances, we had not celebrated our state-line crossing in the manor established in this trip’s terms and conditions (Ts&Cs). So we stopped at the ‘Corner Bar’ (a self declared, 5 star dive bar) and enjoyed some Cold Smoke (a Montana special).
At the bar, camping and dinner recommendations were scarce, so dinner and tomorrow’s breakfast and lunch were procured at Safeway…
…where I took on guard duty.
Steve and Bob excelled themselves with the choice of dinner. We had bone-free pork ribs and butternut squash with avocado salad and pasta salad. As usual it was a collaborative effort. Steve set a great cooking fire. Bob cooked boneless ribs to perfection…
Colin made the butternut squash and Steve, as has become traditional, tossed the salad.
Our campsite is a little quirky. We thought we were going to a KOA. It turns out we’re at an A-OK, which is what you call your campsite after you lose your franchise for not being up to standard. That being said, the staff was very helpful and welcoming.
We will close with a picture of our campsite.
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