Day 19 Prairie Dogs and Trains

The morning dawned cold and clear. After getting packed up we headed for Chester, Mt. It was a day of racing prairie dogs and trains. As we rode by, the prairie dogs would be startled and they would either run along beside us or run into the weeds along the roadside. Sad to say there was a lot of prairie dog roadkill along the road. As I approached two prairie dogs, one darted across the road and the other got confused and stopped right beside my tire(I had just stopped to take a break) and he just sat there a few seconds looking at my wheel.

The road and the railroad tracks pretty much ran parallel most of the day. So we would try and outrun the trains! Not really! But, we did catch up to one that had passed us as it waited for another train to go by. The first twenty miles of the ride was fairly flat and we made good time, but then the hills started again and that slowed us up a bit. We will probably stop here in Chester for the night, we arrived around lunch time, after doing 46 miles, and did a bunch of work here in the library, and now it is after 5 o'clock, so, I think we will just find a place to camp and stop for the night. Pete's rear tire is getting precariously thin as we can see the under layers of it. We are hoping it will make it to Havre tomorrow, another 62 miles or so, because that is the where nearest bike shop is located. We will then change out his tire. - Alicia