Sandpoint, ID. To Libby, MT

Miles 95.1
Ride time 6:06
Elevation gain 2837'

Today we left Sanpoint and the sate of Idaho for Libby, Montana and a change in time zone. We crossed into Mountain Standard Time so we have gained an hour. We almost missed the Montana sign as it was kind of small. I noticed that the highway sign said, "Montana" underneath the route 200, then I saw the Montana sign. This was as we were all on a great downhill. I yelled that I was stopping, but we still almost had a pile up. We did our pictures and headed on out. The roads in Montana are the best yet as far as surface for ridiing. Nice and smooth with clean wide shoulders to ride on. It is a bit crazy that speed limit for cars says 70, but so far all of the drivers have been very polite to us cyclists. The road traffic is very minimal anyway so we had a very nice ride into Libby. It was a long day on the bike, though and all of us were happy to get in for the day. We had a great dinner as usual in a small park behind the hotel. I noticed a group of women that were dressed in long skirts and bonnets, perhaps the Mennonites have a community here.
I hope we will see some wildlife..though not too close. We have seen quite a few Osprey flying around, very cool.
Tomorrow we will head out to Eureka which is north of Libby and only about 7 miles from the Canadian border.