Missoula to Lincoln
Montana
June 27, 2022
We had a great start to the second week of this Coast to
Coast adventure this morning with a wonderful breakfast in the university dorm cafeteria.
They had my favorites; big thick fluffy slices of French toast, piles of crispy
bacon, canned peaches orange juice and lots of really nice coffee. I was afraid I may have over eaten as I was
one of the last to leave the cafeteria.
Out on the road I headed straight to the route and did not
take the tour past the Adventuring Cycling office. It was closed as it did not open until 8:00
am and it was 7:00. Besides which the
routing directions up to this closed office building were so confused, it just
sounded like a place to get lost. The routing directions told you to make a
left on to a street which ran parallel to the one you were on. What?
I questioned this in rider meeting but nobody seemed to understand my question
and so I just gave up trying to make the point.
There I am on the road at 7:00 am heading for an 80 mile
day. The temperature was just around
55F which was pretty nice weather for
cycling. So put the pedal down and
started passing folks. Taking pictures
of the riders as I went. It was lots of
fun. It also gave me lots of opportunity
to practice my big dog bark.
The route was very pretty with the sun reflecting off the
river which ran along the highway. The
period of 1910 through 1949 the Anaconda mining company operated a mining and
logging operations in the valley and had a rail service which moved the ore and
limber. However as the mines ran out and
the logging was done the railroad was abandon. You could still see places where
there were sections of the railroad right of way.
Lunch was in at the 53 mile mark in a river access point
where the fly fishermen put there rubber boats in the water. All the traffic had ground the dirt in to a
fine powder which was a couple of inches deep. As a result it was very
dusty. When Barry came in to lunch he had a little
unclipping incident and went down in the dust.
No harm was done as he was moving at zero miles an hour.
As I pulled into town Ron and Graeme were there so we went
into the local store to get chocolate milk. Ron treated us to the equivalent of a US gal
of chocolate milk. It was so cold and went down so smooth. It was fabulous! Thanks Ron
What a great day.
Terry
3 comments:
Cold chocolate milk; the perfect beverage at the end of a ride.
Calgary Ken C.
So excited to get the daily blog update Terry - always fascinating and your description brings back great memories.
Re the chain - better to replace that early than wear out your cassette and chain rings. And chocolate milk is my favourite recovery drink. (Haven’t see the DQ visit at gathering end of the daysride yet, but maybe it’s not hot enough.
Speaking of recovering, I’m trying to start cycling again after Covid, but got no air for much yet. Stay well, keep blogging and keep the rubber side down!
Jos
Beautiful pics and inspiring commentary as always! Canned fruit and chocolate milk seem to be your secret weapons. You go buddy!!
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