Day 1 (and getting there... Grass Valley to Missoula - arrrgh!) Missoula to Lincoln, MT - 80 miles, 1700 ft. Elevation gain, ave speed 12.8...

OMG! First our feet, then our legs, then our asses went numb driving to Missoula!  18 hours... Total. We switched driving every time a body part went numb and forged on, finishing the drive after midnight, collapsing as soon as we had a horizontal surface to fall on.

We were up at 7 to put the bikes together, repack a bit, and were on the road by 9. 

The continental breakfast at the hotel turned out to be weak coffee and a muffin, so the start of our journey was from a grocery store parking lot...

Soon we were headed into the wildness of Montana...

We rode along the meandering Blackfoot River... So beautiful!

I took Trudy out for a romantic lunch along the way - it was a surprise! The service was good, but the food was so, so...

So, I took her out for a drink...

It was a pretty quiet place...

So, we kept riding... It was only 95 degrees... Talk about a hot honeymoon!

I guess she wasn't that impressed 'cause she took up with this frontier guy...

It didn't last - the guy was a block head.

So we pedaled on to Lincoln, and found a camping spot in town... Must be where the Montana wildlife comes for vacation...

oh deer!