Day Fourteen: Boise to Bozeman

We got up bright and early and took up in a convoy with Lenny and Kathy to McCall, ID to pick up their son John from camp. It was a very scenic drive but short on bathrooms. ;-) We got to the camp and then John rode with me to the first restaurant we stopped at in McCall. It was too packed so since it was stressful to have a check airman's son on the back of my bike I asked him to ride with Robby. Better for my career I think. :-) We rode to a neighboring town and had a nice brunch with the Burliles.

Robby and I took off north to Montana all along rivers the entire way. It was like being in the movie "A River Runs through It." Very pretty ride. We did stop at a gas station and ran into a real biker gang. Right when I pulled into this two pump station these 10 guys stared at me. It might have been the Celine Dion playing on the radio or just the audacity of being a girl not riding on the back, not sure. They were scary. Robby said they all had guns on them. There was a rider there (not with the gang) with one of those BMW, high clearance bikes that had Japan plates. He is doing a 4 year tour of the world. Everywhere! It was insane. He started his tour in 2007! And we thought we had been out a long time cause the moon was a sliver when we started and now it is almost full. We are wimps. We also ran into yet another guy that was riding from coast to coast on his bicycle...crazy people I tell ya.

On this beautiful and very curvy road we got behind these two RV's that slowed us all up a lot. One of them pulled over in the slow lane to let us pass. The "bounder" RV decided he was fast enough apparently. Robby didn't agree with him and passed him in a spot that I would not. I don't like passing on corners even if you can see. There was a straight away and I started around him and he turned on his left turn signal! I backed off and he then waved me around.

About 20 miles down the road we pulled over and took photos of Welcome to Montana and Robby got this look on his face and said, oh no, we have to go now. I turned around and much like Robin Williams in RV when he sees the Gornicke's coming down the road, there was the Bounder rolling down the road. We didn't make it in front of him, but got around him in short time this time around.

Hit the interstate at Missoula and hammered down for Butte. We got there and we were not tired yet, so headed for Bozeman and this is where we are now. ;-)

600 miles today, total is up to 4910 miles so far. More than two thirds finished now! STURGIS tomorrow! Hope we don't run into our gang friends again.

Ciao!