Two flats for me today. One, a faulty valve stem - my third this year. Number two was a "wire snake" - a remnant of a disintegrating steel belted tire, lurking along the freeway shoulder, waiting for the hapless bicycle tourist. In all this vast, baking openness, it happened as we went under an underpass! Then, as we rode up the longest, steepest climb of the day, clouds rolled in with just enough rain to keep us cool.
We skirted around Helena, avoiding the downtown and headed to East Helena where there was an "RV Park" with showers and laundry. Turns out most of the "visitors" trailers have their wheels off, there are abandoned cars and motorcycles and a note on the laundry room door from the ticked off landlord...
But wait, there's more!
We have:
An active railroad across the highway
We are on the incoming flight path for the airport.
2 sheriffs cars have come in since we arrived...
All the cars that have left here need new mufflers...
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