Today will be our second 70 miler in a row. I forgot to mention yesterday most of the riders were very tired right out of the shoot because of our night in Clark Fork, We were set up right under a  huge Maple tree at the High Scholl but neglected to check that the restaurant right next door was also a bar that had karaoke on Sat night. So we were all in bed by 8:30pm and then is when the driving around the school by all the high school kids started , oh and with the squealing of tires too. Soon the fireworks next store started and as the evening went on, the karaoke that was happening on  the deck of the restaurant got louder, louder and the singing worse, worse. About 11:30pm the kids started running through our camp on the mini-bikes and on foot. Lucky that none of them hit the guys ropes from our tents!!! Finally at 2:00am Allison went over and asked the owner when the whole thing would end. The woman was understanding and shut the whole works down.

When we woke in the morning we discovered someone had zip tied our bike together, zip tied the chainrings to the pedals and used baling wire to attached the chain to the sprockets.

Getting coffee at 6:30am at the gas station, Wade asked the cashier if he had some naughty kids in town and describes what had happened. She rolled her eyes and said, ‘Oh, that’s our Joey’!!!  Lucky for us Joey did not do anything to damage our bikes. Slashed tires would have presented a problem being that is was a Sunday and we were 40 mile from Sandpoint which probably had the closest bike shops.

so . . most of us started out the 70 mile ride with about 3 hours of sleep!

The lake produced by the Libby Dam would be the main route we would bike today. 50 miles of lake shore to admire as we biked along. The road went up and down, up and down. over 3,500 feet of climbing and we landed at the same elevation in Eureka!!!

The start of the lake behind the dam . . . would run for over 50 miles

We think this might have been a pier for employees of the dam company to use on weekends with their families’. Nice!!!

The lake made many bends and twists as we biked along it. More elevation than yesterday, just as hot BUT overcast sky’s made the biking MUCH more enjoyable. Still . . .  really pushed the liquids!!!

Really nice biking.

All the up and down we did was because of the desire not to ‘flatten out the road’. Here is one place where they did blast though the surface to avoid an uphill. Yeah!!!!

After 73 mile we reached Eureka. Some biked over 90 miles because they missed a turn right out of Libby. But we had a surprise when Allison, Mike N. and I reached Eureka. The city park was still there for us to use  . . but the city hall staff would no longer ‘loan’ out keys for groups like ours to get in and use the facilities’ through the night and to get potable water. So having restrooms that closed at 4:30pm and would not open until 8:00am tomorrow morning was not going to work for us. Weird thing was Allison had checked with them last week to verify our reservation and  everything was peachy keen!!! Now it was MOTEL time!!!!! . . .

On the way to the motel we met Hank and Aaron, two riders who were doing the ACA Great Divide Ride which goes from Banff, AB to Baja, Mexico. They figure it will take them two months. Safe riding!

Luckily Allison was able to get us into the Ksanka Inn. 8 rooms available. . . .Yippee!!!

Brenda ran the Exxon stations and the motel operations was super helpful in getting things squared away for us

Tonight Allison and Mike N are our cooks and they are using a jar of some peanut butter we have for lunches that is too soupy, to make peanut chicken pad thai. Turned out wonderful and we had ice cream for dessert!!!

D. heard it was time or appetizers and showed up ready to go . . . everyone was hungry and the food quickly vanished.

Shouldn’t be any trouble sleeping tonight!!!