On and off; on and off with the rain gear. We are now fully loaded. The bikes will handle differently and the average speeds will drop. No more 35-40 mph down the hills. Also, the road is wet. The ride is nice until we make the turn on to Route 95 where the 18 wheelers give us our road oil showers.
We hook into a nice bike path for the last 5 miles into Sandpoint; just in time for a pizza and cash infusion. Along Lake Pend Oreille we see ospreys and belted kingfishers.
As we enter Clark Fork we see the Squeeze Inn and its gourmet food sign. Leonard recalls eating there 4 years ago and the cook, Janet. Janet opens the restaurant in the summer as a place so her daughters will have summer jobs and a place to swim, hike and fish.
She has done it for 14 summers and spends winters in South America. A free spirit, she sits with us during dinner and talks and talks. He daughter has to interupt so we can eat. Tough town she tells us.
With a little riding we will be in Montana in the morning. It is pouring rain right now and we hope it ends before the long day to Libby,MT.
Does She serve a big breakfast as well..? Hard to beleive you have had such a run of great weather.... you surely have not run out of water once.
ReplyDeleteWe did our own breakfast. No water problems yet
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