Wind

After breakfast at the casino, we started east with an unrelenting 30 mph tailwind. We cruised along at an effortless 19 or 20 mph much of the day. When the road curved and the wind was off our shoulder, we leaned our bikes hard to keep from being blown over.

The landscape is desolate and (those of delicate nature are warned to skip to the next paragraph) it is hard to find a discreet place to pee beside the road.

We saw a train, probably hauling wheat, a full two miles long.

We saw hundreds, if not thousands, of wind turbines.

At lunch in Cut Bank our server wished us "Godspeed." That was nice.

We are staying the night at Lake Shel-oole, a civic campground built on an old landfill site in Shelby, MT. If the wind ever lets up, we may get some sleep.

We made 69.75 miles today for a trip total of 768.75.