Day 30 TAILWINDS!!!

We spent the night at a RV Park inside Cut Bank, Montana. The sites were covered by large rocks which made great wind barriers. We orginally planned to ride hard today, but once smelling and looking at our sweat and dirt coverd chamious we were tempted into using the laundry facilites. We changed our destitation to Shelby, a quick 25 miles with a nice 10-15 mph tailwinds to push us there. With clean clothes...well, clean for a good hour before we sweat them out agian, we started the days ride. Finally having a fastspeed average, we made it to town in about an hour and 15 minutes. Things were looking up and hoped that the winds would stay so we could start picking up more miles in the very flat days to come. Train after train was park on the tracks that ran along side the town of Shelby. Outside of the grocery store, we all meet up, and started towards camp for the night. Some of the sites we have stayed at are just parks, with a playground, baseball fields, and rv hookups. We cant think of anything like this back home. Setting up camp in the lawn, a older gentleman also on a tour started to talk with us. His wife was following him in a sag wagon as he attempted to conqured the Northern Tier. (Kinda wish we convienced one of the boys to follow us in a car.) 3 hours of hacky sack later, we eat some meaty sandwiches. Smoked ham, turkey, pepper roast beef, salami, onions and lettece on fresh french bread. We are starting to figure out how to eat good and cheap. Winds looking promising for a good tailwind tomorrow, we went to sleep, preparing for the trips first century tomorrow, and most of the guys first 100 miles ever.

 

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