MONTANA!

Leaving TRNP, we knew faced some major dirt roads and hills, but we did not know we would face buffalo. They were just roaming in the middle of the roads and there were many more of them than us. We quite outnumbered and out-sized. It was quite and amazing sight. We kept inching closer to them pushing them along. When they realized we meant no harm to them, they all took off together and ran up a hillside. It took a while to get out of the park, but it was completely worth being as close as we were to the buffalo. We also had to get behind a pace car to lead us through the construction on the road out. Once out of the park we ascended a huge hill and backtracked about 20 miles to the next town which we passed yesterday. The park made all the backtracking completely worth it. In the town of Watford, about a dozen of us stopped at truck diner and got another breakfast, because the first one was not satisfactory. After breakfast we were about 10 miles away from the first lunch, but when we got there, the only thing remaining was the cooler with a few things in it; the van and trailer weren't even there. I guess we had run out of food. Good thing we already ate. We continued on and eventually hit Montana, posed for some pictures, and then turned around and got a few with the North Dakota sign. 6 more miles followed and we hit second lunch where they had restocked with food! A PB&J with a banana, and we were back on the road with about 25 miles in our 97 mile day. Going into Culbertson was absolutely beautiful as we crossed the Missouri River and hit really cool mountains. One more climb and we were in town. We were finally staying at a church again! And they had food waiting for us when we arrived. It was awesome. We showered at the local high school, came back ate dinner, then had an affordable housing meeting and were exhausted from our near century, so it was time for bed.