DAY 19

A short but beautiful ride of about 40 miles from Bad Medicine to a town by the name of Libby. Decent in size with a population of about 2000, considering the past towns we've been through have only had a couple hundred, was a quick stay. The ride itself was great, nice and laid back nestled between the rockies with great weather as well. Our first stop was at a small diner called Little Joe's to grab a quick bite and after a couple burgers, a hot dog, and a delicious frozen corndog, once again we were started to doze off the front patio. Eventually gathering the strength from such a pain staking day we hit the road. With a "tourist viewpoint" sign in the distance we decided to make our next stop at Kootenai Falls. An awesome viewpoint of the waterfalls that ran along the Kootenai Lake. We made a short hike to the falls then to the swinging bridge where it consisted of rope and planks of wood that ran across the falls with a 60 ft drop below. Though secure it seemed as if it could of broke at any second...Kane's bigfoot impression did not help...Beau almost crying from fright did. Hitting the road once again we made it to Libby soon after with no troubles finding a campground. Across from our campsite, a couple of loaded bikes leant agianst a tree. A car held one on a roof rack, a couple of teens, two girls, and an older gentleman sat talking. Confused by this we deciding to investagte. The two girls were riding together, the car belonged to the teens, and the man meet the girls on the ride. One of the girls had injured her knee, and was riding in the car with her friends. The other girl was tagging along the man for company on the long days. they were hitting around 130 miles the next day, needless to say we felt like whimps. The guy was a extremly huge talker, one word about his surly and off he went, explaining how he switched and built the wheels himself after doing ride down the pacific coast, because he has gotten old and needed larger luxery which added more weight...and you get the picture. After a while we found out that he was just travleing to Glacier. The girls were doing the exact route we were. With a short time frame, they were pushing miles out hard. They have a website called bikesforbetter.org exchanging cards, we quickly looked thiersa up. They were riding to riase money for a donation, and nice website with alot of time spent in designing it. We then looked at ours in comparision. A little embrassed, we laughed over how there donate button went towards a greater cause, and ours went towards a six pack. (we have only used on food so far). Laughed over our ginyu poses, versues thier pictures voluneeteing in third would countires. We have come to notice that every biker we have meet travel at diffrents speeds, with different luxieres, for different reasons, but it always dwindles down to that we all are drawn to this adventure from the beauty that only a bike let you see, and the tranquilty it gives as you travel the country in a very self freeing way.