2021-08-13-Friday-Williston ND to Havre MT-322 miles

 

Eastern Montana is really really really flat and dry!

Great breakfast at Quality Inn this morning. We have been eating something for breakfast, skipping lunch and then find a local place for dinner and chatting. Not exactly getting a lot of exercise other than doing squats on the bikes all day to keep the knees from locking up. So far so good, same belt loop..

Dave found a local shop to do his oil change. It was a Kawasaki shop, but Dave had the filter, crush washer (ask a motorcycle geek) and also the special oil filter wrench you need for his beemer. Awesome shop, did a great job and were very friendly folks. We were on the road by 10:30 and today we only had to drive west on Rt 2. There is actually a lot of crops being grown but it is not that healthy. Corn is kinda brown,

soy is kinda scrawny, the wheat looked really beautiful ("amber waves of grain.."), but as we found out tonight from the locals, they are in drought all this year (no snow pack and no rain) so things are hurting. We did see combines harvesting the wheat. The wheat is only a foot high, but how do I know how high it is supposed to get??

Temperatures got to only about 90 so that was great. There was a little wind today, but nothing like the beating we took yesterday. Found a hotel in Havre tonight and walked down the street to a steak place for really good burgers (hey, it's chopped steak, ok!!).

Tomorrow it's Great Falls where there is a bunch of Lewis & Clark stuff. Dry blog post on a dry day..

Odometer: 5198-4876=322 miles