Author: neil
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Missoula, MT to Ovando, MT
We got back on the move in the cool morning air made comfortable by the bright sun. Within a mile after leaving our AirBNB, cutting through the University, crossing a heavily-padlocked pedestrian bridge, and joining MT-200, we were already (briefly) in another gorgeous deep river canyon. Already Rett has declared Montana the prettiest state in…
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Missoula, MT
We’ve now crossed Idaho and made it to Missoula, at which point the arrow directing our path has once again gone dark. So we have three nights here to work on getting it re-lit and seeing which direction it is now pointing. Lodging for the weekend was pretty expensive, so we ended up at an…
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Powell, ID to Missoula, MT
This morning was sunny, but even colder than yesterday morning’s forest camp, at 39F, and that was enough to kill the battery in Rett’s bike computer. I’d looked for some of the CR2032 coin-cell batteries at Albertsons or something a couple weeks ago but they didn’t have them, so what are the chances that the…
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Lowell, ID to Powell, ID
It was 50 degrees F when we woke at 5:30am, which isn’t too bad considering it was 53F at 8:45 last night when I got in the tent. The baking drylands of Eastern Washington seem like they must be half-a-world away. Despite the early rise, we both got a solid 8+ hours of sleep, with…
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Kamiah, ID to Lowell, ID
There is a pond next to the tent area at the Kamiah KOA, likely as a sort of entertainment feature (it has a fountain shooting up in the middle). But it also has frogs. A whole load of frogs, who BRAP BRAP all night long (I don’t know where this “ribbit” thing came from). When…