The weather forecast was for a nice tailwind today and the chances of precipitation has decreased. Maybe I would actually stay dry, yay! It looked to be a good day to be on the bike. Unfortunately, soon after starting at about 6:20A, it started to rain and continued for the next several hours and that tailwind never showed up until after my ride had finished for the day. At one point, in the rain, my Garmin bike computer glitched and turned itself off and I wasn’t able to get it started again no matter which permutation of button presses I used. Damn, that bike computer was how I was navigating and my phone just uses too much juice to be sustainable in this role. While grabbing some lunch in Denton, I tried just powering it up by attaching it to a power bank and that worked! It wasn’t low on power, it just needed to be defibrillated.

With the rain, I finally had an excuse to wear my foul weather gear. My giant orange jacket tends to blow up like an enormous orange when you ride in it but it has great pit zips and doesn’t wet through. It worked fine but I wouldn’t want to wear it in a stiff headwind.

My home tonight is at a private campground in Lewistown MT. Unfortunately, the tent sites are right next to a busy road and a street light is over my tent so I’ll need to wear a buff over my ears and earplugs so I have a chance of sleeping. On the plus side, the showers were clean and they have a laundry.

I had a delicious quinoa salad for dinner and a very nice dinner companion, have clean clothes after two weeks on this adventure, have a safe place to stay for the night, and am 100 miles closer to home. Altogether, a good day (if I can get a good night’s sleep).