After dominating the thirty miles from montana border to Missoula (at 20mph Dan informed us using stopwatch and mile markers, which is pretty impressive fully loaded might add) we called Greta. We had gotten Greta's number from her dad who we had briefly met a week earlier in NE Oregon. He had told us to call his daughter for a place to crash when in Msla. Greta was visiting her parents in Idaho, but had been expecting our call and left a key -- how great is that?! So we got to stay in her sweet apt anyway and were welcomed by her boyfriend who brought us a bag of delicious cookies and found where she had hidden the key!! People are so amazing!
As for kelseys last comments, it seemed only fitting that we get our noses pierced... The last 800 miles we have been travelling in Nez Perce country, which means nose pierce in French :) obviously we had many days to get excited about the idea,
Secondly, turns out we got to spend more quality time in Missoula than expected. So plenty of time to kill piercing noses. My bikes been making some funky noises and I'd been told a few times it was just my spokes rubbing together, but it had gotten pretty bad so I took it to hellsgate cycle downtown missoula while we went to the Market. Kevin figured out my rear wheels hub was on it's last miles and I was lucky I brought it in- last bike shop was in fifty miles and after that nothing til yellowstone! So all afternoon he pulled together a new wheel for me... Yay! Unfortunately, it wasn't done til 3:30 and kels and I had to make it 70 miles ( few towns in Montana... Base our days and miles on food... Guess not a ton different from home ;) ) so we did our smelly laundry, called Greta and stayed another night in Msla. Extra sweet, cuz out of all of this craziness we end up running into Paul, our biking buddy.. Who in the midst of everything going on brings a little peace. It feels good to run into people going thru what you are:)
So now we're racing across Montana to meet the boys on time in yellowstone.... Done with days off... Two in all 21 days so far, not bad... Kels calls me a slave driver but really I just LOVE to BIKE!! :) :)