Pedicab Man

Locha Lodge, Idaho to Missoula, Montana 59 miles...up-down hill
When I told the group we would have 8 miles of easy climbing and only 4 miles of the steep stuff apparently some of them didn’t believe me. Bruce left a dark-thirty and was in the tour guide business in Missoula by the time we arrived. When we reached Lolo Pass after those first 12 miles there were some happy folks. Rich got a bunch of us organized for a photo shot which after awhile started to feel like a wedding. If you have 10 people with cameras all wanting group shots, single shots and small group shots the smiles can start to get a little forced–I think the wait around for pics was harder than the climb but managed to smile on....and on....and on.
Then we did the 35 mile downhill to the town of Lolo and got there just in time for much needed taco lunch.
Rich and I are staying with my friend Tom Robertson in Missoula. Rich also knows Tom from when they did an Adventure Cycling event together in 2002. It was great fun to hang around with a couple bike-heads. We had plenty of bike-war stories to tell. Rich is staying on the couch in Tom’s bike room which has bikes mounted on the wall and a espresso machine– heaven on earth for bike guys. Later, Rich told me he counted 13 bikes in that room. Still later, I spot a couple in the side yard and Tom said he had a couple more in the shed and his wife Ruth has 2 with her in San Diego where she is attending Rolfing School. That’s 19 more or less.
Rich, Tom and I took Judy to dinner for her birthday. We ate at a nice Italian restaurant . The next night we had sushi. Both were good meals after our time in the wilderness.
Looking around 360 degree in Missoula you see nothing but mountains. It does not take masters degree in physics to figure out there going to be some climbs ahead. A rest day will do us all good particularly since there is a bug loose in the group causing some bad colds. Our route raps sound like there taking place in a TB ward

I know I look like hell in this picture and that these post could use some editing but I'm too darn tired to give a shit