We stopped at the post office in Ashton, ID and picked up some replacement
parts, BikeE had mailed to us general delivery. I filled out a change of address
form so anything sent to us that arrived late would get forwarded or returned.
It then occured to me that if everything was sent to one person we'd only need
to have one of us go in and only need one change of address form. Hence the
new Andrew Morton c/o Brad Bynum at General Delivery style addresses.
The matron of our campguound recommended that we take Hwy 47 out of Ashton, it'd meet up with 20 but there'd be a lot less traffic and a much more scenic ride. She was absolutely correct, we had the road to ourselves and saw some georgous waterfalls. One thing that suprised me was the smells, in a car about all you ever smell is a skunk or dairy farm.
We passed through a field of flowers and my first reaction was "Wow,THIS is what toilet bowl cleaner tries to smell like". After reflectinq on that though for a little while I was a bit disappointed with this modern world, instead of being able to describe the scent in terms of the flowers that compose it I can only describe it as the artifical scents used to mask the smell of harsh chemicals. My new job idea for next summer is to work in a national park and meet some cute botanist girl and convince her to teach me to identify the flowers.
When we were stopped at a gas station filling up water I broke out the cellphone and made some calls. Bob Trailers is now sending us new pins for the trailer and my dad may be meeting us in Casper, WY.
The Continental Divide forms the border between Idaho and Montana, we'd been a little worried about the pass crossing it. At 8000+ ft. it would be the
highest point we'd been at to date.
We knew the approximate mileage to the top and kept getting a bit more
apprehensive as we got closer and closer but didn't gain any elevation. I was
envisioning this evil set of twenty-something switchbacks at an 8% grade. We
finally started climbing just a mile from the border and I was relieved and then
disappointment quickly followed. I felt a little cheated, we only gained about
500 ft and that was it, take the picture by the Montana sign and drop down. It
was truely the most anti-climatic pass ever. In Brad's own words "No, I did
not climax".
andrew
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