Get a mooooo-ve on

After packing up camp and saying goodbye to our generous neighbors we stopped at Little Horse Lodge for breakfast and a blog-post. The sign out front gave us a chuckle as we rode out.

As planned, we took about 60 km of back roads instead of the highway. The first 40 or so km's were wonderfully smooth unpaved road winding through fields and birch grooves with ranches speckling the landscape. Small herds of cattle would block the road at times, so we stopped and waited for them to move along. We were very pleased with ourselves and our adventurousness. 

The road then joined up with a logging road that was slightly less wonderful. It was full of ruts and bumps so we journeyed on at a slightly slower pace. One particular bump was ill-placed and threw the back tire out from underneath us in the middle of a turn. The bike went down and so did we. We fell low side and the bike spun around with the front forks on top of my legs at the end of the slide. Sonia was up on her feet quickly, though I could see her knees shaking. She said that she was ok and proceeded to lift the front tire off my legs as if it were a paperweight. Thanks to our protective gear and slow speed, we both appeared to be fine. A few cuts and bruises, some scuffed apparel, and a sore ego seemed to be the only damage. Nevertheless, I drove at a snail's pace for the last 10 km's of unpaved roads. We stopped for lunch and Wi-fi at Blue River and a torrential downpour rolled through.

Neither of us felt much like sleeping on the ground, so we reserved a cabin at Tete Jaune (about 100km north) and made a run for it as soon as the sky had cleared. A hot shower and a warm meal at a local truckstop did wonders for our aches and pains. I built a fire by the river and we stayed up late talking and drinking beer and coffee with some friendly German people staying across from us in an RV. A warm, dry bed with a roof over it was just what our bones needed and we fell asleep listening to to the rain fall on the little tin roof.

Odometer: 478 miles