Author: neil

We confined ourselves to the first floor of the expansive WarmShowers house (that we had entirely to ourselves) in order to minimize any disturbance. That might be one reason that the bedroom we slept in really reminded me of my grandparents’ bedroom in their Wisconsin farmhouse. Theirs was also the lone first-floor bedroom, in a…

It was another cold night and morning, where the Great Falls official reading of 33F set a new record low for the summer solstice. We’ll take it, since we’re tik-tok-ing back to a long ride today, and this night we were warm under a roof (which had water dripping off it, presumably from the morning…

With one day until the summer solstice, the temperature got down to within one degree of freezing in the early morning. Wild. But much better than the opposite. Our sleeping bag (plus new two-person sleeping pad) keep us reasonably comfortable at those temperatures, whereas it’s much tougher to handle a hot (and especially humid) night…

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…

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…