Glasgow to Wolf Point, MT.

Miles 54.8
Ride time 3:32
Elevation gain 784'
Miles to date 1219.8
Elevation gain to date 45,984'

We woke up this morning to rain. A storm had moved in the area and since we had a shorter ride today, we waited until about 10 am to leave. The hotel in Wolf Point was not going to let us check in any earlier than 3 anyway, so there was no point in hurrying to get there. We all had on our rain gear as we left town. At about mile 20, we turned off Highway 2 to a country road that was really quiet and very scenic. It was nice to be off the highway, even though traffic was pretty light. There is so much junk on the shoulder of the highway that many in our group are getting multiple flats.
The side road was nice and we only saw about 4 cars in the 30 miles that we were on it. We saw the WT van and trailer stop which was the signal that Patty would stop riding and Denise would get to ride. Quite a few bikes were onto of the van as a few decided that they did not want to ride. Behind the trailer, a man in a pickup had stopped and motioned me to come over. I went over find out what he wanted. He was an older gentleman who wanted to tell us that he had seen us on TV. He seemed very excited about seeing us. It was hard to understand him as he had no teeth, but he was very sweet in his enthusiasm. I think he may have mixed us up with the Tour De France, but nevertheless he was pretty darned pleased to have seen us. In fact he drove by us twice. The second time, Jennifer was our spokesperson. He was thrilled to tell her the same thing and then he finally drove off. We rode on and met up with a couple of dogs, none of which were too aggressive. One, in fact, ran along in the grass beside us for at least a mile. It was so Fu to watch him bound along. He finally tired out, but he was running about 16 miles and hour for quite a while!
We finally turned onto back onto the highway for the last 3 miles into town. Wolf Point is a small town that, like many towns we have seen, are almost closed down. Most of the downtown is empty. It was also Sunday, but the only food was hamburgers at the Catholic church, fast food at MacDonalds, or something from the grocery store. Amy, Jennifer and I opted for the grocery store. We bought some fruit and yogurt and went back to them hotel. The storm looks like it cleared out. We are hoping for good weather tomorrow!