Missoula
Second rest day, Missoula, Mt. feeling a little rough this morning. We went out last night, had a few beers, and Moon and I ended up eating breakfast @ 0230 @ some dive of a bar. Man, what good food! Of course we were just a little impaired. Moon sees this young couple gassing up their car @ a store, starts yelling about giving us a ride and when he offered them $5 they said yes. We stumbled in @ 0300 and crashed in our dorm rooms. 97 miles, 20 hrs and 1 pub crawl later.
The ride yesterday was scheduled for 101 miles, but there was construction and we had to sag in 1 of the vans through it, The road was rocks and very heavily traveled and the staff chose not to endanger anyone's life. Good choice!! It was cooler with partly cloudy skies, Justin and I rode together all day. We got a late start because of the night before. We had all bedded down @ the Thompson Falls H.S. @ 2100, I was listening to my I-pod and had fallen asleep. @ 2300 I woke and thought there was an airplane trying to land next to my tent. It was the sprinkler hitting my tent, water was pouring in thru the vents. People were yelling and I was swearing like a sailor. Moon rolled over and put his hands over the sprinkler to block the water and I was able to get out of the tent, pull up the stakes and drag the whole thing over to a dry area. Not only was most everything wet, but with all the ruckus and trying to dry things out enough to sleep, the tent was open for a long time and there must have been 1,000 mosquitoes in my tent and they feasted on me all night. It took me longer than usual to pack up all my wet crap and get it on the truck. Breakfast was down town so we rode to the restaurant and were @ the last of the line so it took forever to get our food! We started out @ the back of the pack but in Missoula were right in the middle. It did take us some extra time to get to the University because Moon and Dave had found the Big Sky Brewery and had chalked up the road so we would go there. Had a sample of every beer they make, all 8 of them. Needless to say we were quite happy when we got to U.M.
The ride yesterday was scheduled for 101 miles, but there was construction and we had to sag in 1 of the vans through it, The road was rocks and very heavily traveled and the staff chose not to endanger anyone's life. Good choice!! It was cooler with partly cloudy skies, Justin and I rode together all day. We got a late start because of the night before. We had all bedded down @ the Thompson Falls H.S. @ 2100, I was listening to my I-pod and had fallen asleep. @ 2300 I woke and thought there was an airplane trying to land next to my tent. It was the sprinkler hitting my tent, water was pouring in thru the vents. People were yelling and I was swearing like a sailor. Moon rolled over and put his hands over the sprinkler to block the water and I was able to get out of the tent, pull up the stakes and drag the whole thing over to a dry area. Not only was most everything wet, but with all the ruckus and trying to dry things out enough to sleep, the tent was open for a long time and there must have been 1,000 mosquitoes in my tent and they feasted on me all night. It took me longer than usual to pack up all my wet crap and get it on the truck. Breakfast was down town so we rode to the restaurant and were @ the last of the line so it took forever to get our food! We started out @ the back of the pack but in Missoula were right in the middle. It did take us some extra time to get to the University because Moon and Dave had found the Big Sky Brewery and had chalked up the road so we would go there. Had a sample of every beer they make, all 8 of them. Needless to say we were quite happy when we got to U.M.
posted by ltsullivan3 at 9:34 AM
2 Comments:
I don't know why it didn't occur to me, but I should have known you were only riding your bike this far as a cross-country beer tour!
Keep up the good work!
Yay - you got an iPod! Awesome!
Also, glad you got beer!
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