Saturday, August 25, 2007

 

Day 20... From Fort Benton to Great Falls and Lincoln...135 miles.

Fort Benton was great. Starting with the 87 year old inn keeper who gave us a beer. Lewis and Clarke camped on the river bank here and there is nice little tourist industry grown up around floating the river and town history.

It's 42 hard miles from Fort Benton to the bike shop in Great Falls. Starting with the 240 vertical foot climb out of the Missouri River valley. The wind, bad roads and long hills made for an interesting ride.

Image riding along at 12 mph and having two buck antelopes pass you about 100 feet off the road, get ahead about 300 feet and cross the road in front of your still moving bike. Cool. One buck was chasing the other out of his territory and other seemed to be running for his life.

The ride from Great Falls to Lincoln was easy, we averaged 61 mph over and I did about the same going back.

I'm setting in a motel room near the airport and can hear the wind howling outside my window .

Total bicycle miles 1320. Great trip. Back home tomorrow. I'll miss the road.

By the way, you'll have ask Bill how we made such good time to Lincoln. I promised not to tell.

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