 happy to see clear skies because something happened last night that I did not expect it started to rain and of course I didn't have the fly on because they don't like sleeping with the fly on so I was scrambling around at midnight putting it up hiding all my electronics and it rained intermittently off and on all night long. Good morning to my favorite dog. How you doing? Did you sleep well last night? Did you care about the rain? No you probably didn't. How you doing? Well yeah a little tired. Took a while to get to sleep but I have coffee at hand so I'm doing well. All right I stuck my tent up on its side hopefully will dry off before I pack it got pretty wet last night but I do love the sound of rain pitter-pattering on a tent. It's very very soothing this is pretty funny so that's where my tent was. So I have something to admit here I should have been paying a lot more attention to the resupply chart that my friend Nick Ligon gave me but I haven't been and I looked at today's ride and we have a hundred miles before we get to anything and that's only an Exxon gas station in Lima, Montana and all I have to eat are two tortillas Nutella and about 12 energy bars, cliff bars. That's enough calories for sure but put in with fire so I need to start paying more attention to buying enough food when we have the opportunity which we did at the mercantile yesterday and I was just distracted by buying postcards. Let this be a lesson to you always buy enough food more than enough food or you're gonna be living off of cliff bars. How about you buddy? What's your food situation? It's not too bad I mean I have some wraps peanut butter tuna with my ranch dressing and one more udon noodle soup so I think I might be your supplier and lots of dog food. Oh yeah that's the most important part we have plenty of food for Mira she'll be fine. Time for the morning cuddles with the baby. You ready to ride bikes? Yeah look how many she is. No crashies, no flatties, no winnies. Oh it smells so fresh all the sage got wet last night in the rainstorm. I like being in the woods in the trees but out here you feel like a tiny little speck on the gigantic planet Earth. I'm gonna have some serious smile wrinkles after this entire ride is done. I've been really really enjoying it. Every pedal stroke of the way. Mira is in and out of the basket all day up and down up and down. What kind of training does it take to do this? Yeah it's funny you know what I think when she was a really young pup I could just pick her up and place her in the basket so then it was just getting her to stay and be stable and so if the basket was comfortable then she would stay in it. There was no problem. And then later on when she was a bit older I would have her jump on things you know up up onto a rock or onto a bench or you know a bank and you know some that kind of thing. I really don't think that I'm teaching her to do a whole lot. It's a lot of me learning how to adapt with her and sort of making the environment such that it's that it works out. So I stopped for her to jump in and you know make it as comfortable as possible and praise her and these kind of things. And that's sort of my theory for what it's worth with dogs is you know we're just we're trying to key them in to do the things that we want but it's they already do them. They you know they run they jump they play they catch they chase they sit and lay down but we're just getting them to do it when we want to. And so there's got to be something in it for for them and so she she's having a great time out here she get lots of praise and meets people and she loves to jump out and run we see that you know she she pulls so it really hasn't been that hard and and so really it's I'm the one that's getting trained and learning so to make it happy and pleasant for her. I just picked up some water from that little creek down here and out here in the ranch land you have to be careful of the water because there's a lot of cows that are pooping and peeing in this water and that can cause all sorts of bad things for your stomach, giardia and everything else so you really want to filter this water for sure. Sometimes you can get away with the mountain water way up in the middle of nowhere not filtering it as much but here you definitely want to be careful because nobody wants diarrhea on a bike tour. How are we all doing this morning? Good to see you. It's so funny when you go by cows they all just stop and stare at you like you're an alien. Maybe I am an alien. So John has a dog I think maybe I'll bring a snake look at this guy he is so cool when I was a kid I used to catch these kind of snakes all the time a lot of you ask if I ever get bored while riding my bike never because there's always something to do like catch a snake. Alright buddy see you later. Hi Mara. You having fun in the water? It is lunchtime guess what I'm having a bar. Why a bar? That's all I have. We have a nice creek right here. Everybody's happy. Excuse us coming through. Thank you for moving. I had to. Cheesy I know but you know nice view back there. Oh this one's a steep one. 11% great. How we doing Mara? Went up a big hill. I'm eating my last Snickers. Snickers are always good. I don't get sick of Snickers but I do get sick of cliff bars. My friend tries to put a positive spin on headwind and he calls it tailwind that just happens to be in your face. So that's how I'm trying to think of this right now. It's a tailwind. It's just in my face. That gives you an idea of how windy it is. It's seriously windy. It does really put a damper on our fast riding. We've probably been going between seven and eight miles an hour just headling as hard as we can but this is all part of the game when you sign up for a bike tour not every day's tailwinds right? Ready? One, two, there you go. Over there. You know who doesn't care about headwinds at all is Mira. She just wants to play fetch. Distance but now we have these really dark clouds to contend with. Not quite sure what's gonna happen. Usually it means rain but it's blue sky over here so we might sneak right in between the storm. Who knows? Yikes. I don't know if you can hear this but there's wind whipping on the ridge up there. It sounds almost like thunder but it's like it's kind of spooky but it's also exciting. We don't quite know what's gonna happen. Doing John. Well we got hail coming and there's this in protection from Mira. I'm gonna put her goggles on her rex specs. It's not gonna protect her totally but protect the important parts of the eyes. Yeah baby. Good stuff. That'll give you some protection. Lay down. Good girl. It's here. It was in Montana. This hail is starting to get big and fat and it hurts. It's not wet but we are definitely getting pelted by little BBs. Ow. It's a Christmas miracle. We're at this motel. I was filming the rain and the hail and this dude runs up and says hi. Are you saying that it's my fault that you're out here right now? Yeah it's Ryan's fault that I'm out in the rain. Why is it my fault? What have I done? You inspired me to get out there and adventure and spend a lot of time on my bike. What are you loving it? Every second of it. Even the parts that hurt. That's awesome. This is so cool. You meet the you meet some great people in the middle of nowhere. This is so much fun. What do you say John? Should we get a hotel today or do you want a camp? I don't know. There was a bridge we could camp under. That'd be alright. Mira, how are you doing? Are you okay, Mira? Yeah you're always happy, aren't you? She was a trooper. You're always happy. We are in a nice warm cabin. Yep, Mira too is on my bed. Thank you for coming to say hi. We are in a nice warm hotel and I am so excited. There's nothing better than being rescued by a warm hotel room in a hot shower after freezing your butt off. How you doing over there, John? I'm doing well, Ryan. Thanks. Yeah buddy. And this hotel room has some great Montana art. I'm really excited about it. Want to sleep in my bed? You can sleep in my bed. What a great day. We made it all the way here. We got some real food. I had two dinners tonight. I had one which was a grilled cheese and then I thought I'm not full and then we went to a really cool bar and got pizza. Happy Thursday, everybody.