Stretching Out

(brice writing) We were heading west when we saw this helpful sign. We’re not sure why it was here specifically, since Canada is pretty much always a right turn if you’re going west in the US.

Speaking of, we continued our trend of meeting an eastbound cyclist each day since Medora; we ran into some nice guys from Quebec that were biking from Vancouver BC to Montreal, evidently via Montana. I hope they find a Canada sign when the time comes.

We’d been a bit frustrated the last two days because the weather was good and the wind was decent, but because towns (and water) are so far apart, we kept having to stop at ~55 miles. Today offered a variety of possible endpoints that weren’t too outrageous – so we wound up going a bit over 91 miles to Saco. We’re pretty tired but it actually wasn’t too hard. We left Wolf point a bit after 8 this morning and got in shortly after 6. Unfortunately my odometer is less waterproof than advertised and will now only display the current speed in km/h, so I don’t know exactly how long we were riding or what our average speed was.

Thanks to everybody who correctly identified the mystery plant as Canola, a type of mustard. It’s good to know where cooking oil comes from.

I’ll close with yet another landscape. These bluffs were formed by the Missouri river before the last ice age; glaciation redirected the missouri and so now the valley is occupied by the much smaller Milk river.