Days 4, 5, and 6: Wilbur, WA to Mcgregor Lake, MT

Every Day is a new challenge

What!? You're doing three days in one post! Jordan, are you getting lazy about the blog?

No.

Although shuffling photos from my phone to my email (only five at a time), download them, and then upload them to Blogspot all on the back of wi-fi that isn't the greatest for most of the places we've stayed at takes a while. 

It is a process that after a long day of biking just looks like another hill I have to climb for the day.

But! I love writing to those who want to read and posting the pictures when I get the chance.

Day four was a day on U.S. Hwy 2 from Wilbur to Spokane Valley. Past home of the one and only, legendary, President Ludlow.

We had been in Pres's mission for sometime now, but today we went back to the motherland of Spokane.

Like I said at the top, every day is a new challenge; and today's challenge was headwind.

We had a strong headwind the whole way from Wilbur to Spokane. What added to it was the rolling hills. Although we have all decided now that we would take hills any day over headwind.

It just saps it right out of ya.

Nonetheless this is what our ride looked like:

I had more, but some of the photos are downloading into a file that my computer can't read.

There were just fields and fields of grain. With the wind blowing it was waves of grain that was very excellent to the eyes.

We made it though! We dove into Spokane from the 2 and made our way through downtown.

Oh the memories! Some things have changed and others I still remember. I love this city.

We went through Riverside Park on a bike trail that took us to Spokane Valley.

We had one stop before though, because Spokane was experiencing a heat wave unlike any they have had for a few years.

It was 99.

We all turned onto a street and unanimously felt like our body temperatures were rising and had to take a break.

I took it as an opportunity to drench myself in water to try and cool down. 

Heat + Headwind + Hills = Quick Drain of Energy.

But, we made it safe and sound to our first lodgings with a pool and gladly jumped in for about 45 minutes.

That night we were able to meet up with my Dad's old Mission Executive Secretary, Dale Reese, and have dinner with he and his wife Trudy. They are some of the greatest people. It was so great seeing them there again.

Day 5: Spokane Valley, WA to Clark Fork, ID

First state crossing baby!!

We made it! And I just wanted to dance like Dora and sing the jam.

I know it's only one state, but finishing one was awesome.

We took the 95 up to Sandpoint, ID. Which was a nice ride, fairly smooth.

As some of you saw earlier we stopped to see some wildlife at Wolf People.

Working on getting the other pics. 

We had just missed the tour to see the adults, but they let us see and pet the puppy wolves for free and we took a few pictures with them.

Then it was onward to Sandpoint and freakin' lunch!

The best was going over the Lake Pend Oreille (Pond Eray)

Ate at a Pub in Sandpoint called Eichardts (Eckharts). If you are ever in the area, the service isn't the best but the food is excellent.

Sandpoint has an old feel to it, but it isn't lacking anything. It's such a gorgeous area. In the winter you have Schweitzer to go skiing on. It's were I learned to snowboard pretty much.

After that it was a 27 mile ride to the small town of Clark Fork where we went down for the night.

Day 6: Clark Fork, ID to McGregor Lake, MT

Today was a nice easy going day. We got up early enough, got out, and was at a good pace for the day.

We took the only road out of Clark Fork, ID and made our way to Montana.

Two states down!

All except Matt completely missed the Montana state border sign, so that is why there are no pictures of that.

The morning ride was gorgeous. It was the forests of pine trees, fresh mountain air, cool temperature, sunny day that we had grown accustomed too.

You couldn't ask for a better morning.

We went to the MT 200 and made our way north back to Hwy 2 to continue east to Libby, MT and all the way to Mcgregor Lake.

The morning was excellent but the afternoon brought on the heat. 

After lunch in Libby we made the final pull to McGregor through valleys and forests.

I know why Montana is called Big Sky Country. Really the only way to do it justice is to show y'all pictures.

So tomorrow that will be my mission: To get the pictures transferred and through that whole mess of a process so to show you the story instead of just telling you.

Needless to say, you are in for a great treat.

As always, feel free to leave anything on your mind and let me know what you would like to hear more of n' stuff.

Tomorrow will be picture day so you can get me to quit telling and start showing.

Also, I hope to get to tell you all about Glacier and the Going-to-the-Sun Rd. That was today and it was amazing.

-Jordo

P.S. Pics are updated on days 1, 2, and 3 now.

-Jordo