 I'm feeling good feeling really good about all this really enjoying it feeling very grateful and look who's waiting for me right there I'm feeling very grateful that Mira and John are here too because they're bringing a lot to the trip for sure and I gotta go now and play a fetch right ready to play fetch are you ready oh I'm ready all right we have had a wonderful night here with Sean and Becca thank you so much thank you it is a beautiful Monday morning we're feeling recharged re-energized re-everything really let's start the week off right no crashies no whammies no wait no I did rammies too soon I messed up my own chance no crashies no flaties no whammies it's Monday you know brain brain's not firing up yet that was a close call it was good thing John was here to keep me in line you know what I've just noticed that I'm riding slowly uphill for hours here is that it's a lot drier here it's a lot browner this is more what I thought all of Montana would look like I was actually really surprised at how green and lush it was the first three days it looked almost like the Pacific Northwest and now it looks like the way I thought it looked this is what Colorado looks like it's kind of brown by this point in the summer not a lot of water it's still beautiful it's just not lush and green this is how Mira stays cool usually we have nice big rivers for her but today a little drainage dish does the job right so I want to do that too Mira can you dig me a tub this morning before we left town and while I still had cell reception I called my grandma my Nana to wish her a happy birthday today is her 87th birthday and she sounded so happy to hear from me she said her friends had thrown her a party last night with pizza and she even drank a beer she's so cute and the reason why it's a big deal is because she's going through serious dementia right now and it's getting worse by the month by the day and she forgets a lot of stuff and it's hard to see somebody love go through that you know and there might be a day when I call her and she doesn't remember me you know so today she did remember me and she was really excited so happy birthday Nana you know life is a beautiful tragic exciting heartbreaking thing and the older I get the more I appreciate every single day on this planet because nothing's a guarantee nothing and you never know when it's gonna change and that's why I wake up psyched pretty much every day people always ask me are you always so positive and happy and the answer is no I'm a human I go through all sorts of emotions you've seen a lot of them I like to look on the bright side of things for sure and when things are bad or frustrating there's it's momentary this too shall pass you know it's not gonna last forever just like up hills and mountains and headwinds well your peanut butter looks way better than mine yeah what's that oh peanut butter and co dark chocolate dreams will you trade lunch with me Mira what'd you bring for lunch around a bit of a technical road here pretty beat up which is fun I'll take this over a washboard road any day yeah it's beautiful back here no more cars no motorized vehicles allowed no ATVs kicking up dust and up and up that uphill was uh pretty good pretty good and technical totally washed out road and I am incredibly impressed that John just powered that beast right up it didn't put his foot down once it's impressive very impressive then of course Mira was just dancing around the whole time bouncing having the time of her life off leash log log it's big it's heavy it's wood log log it's better than bad it's good what are you doing in there America you better not jump on me you are covered in mud that was a serious uphill that was uh that was mountain biking for sure the first bit of real technical stuff I'd say we've seen on this route so far left turn Mira left turn let's go really do you get a lot of bikers through cyclists oh yeah yeah all the time yeah I mean this year not as much because of COVID usually the bartender just said that this bar has been here since 1907 and it started out as a brothel and then a speakeasy and I guess it's been a watering hole as he says for a long time so this happens more often than not we stop at a place thinking we're just going to get a quick drink and then keep we're going to continue on riding but we meet these nice guys and they're like well you can stay in the community hall if you want for five bucks so you know it's 6 45 p.m we've ridden enough today 30 miles something like that a lot of serious uphill 5 000 feet of elevation yeah we're gonna we're gonna sleep in the community hall let's go in I'll give you a tour check it out I can just picture old time dances where all the boys are sitting on this side and all the ladies are sitting over here hoping the boys will ask them to dance this is cool and it has a stage repunzel repunzel let down your hair and this is very important power strips for charging and how cool of them did they offer this service to the cyclists that come through town five bucks that's not bad at all I would call that a screaming deal because any hotel in America these days on the side of a highway the cheapest you can find are like 75 dollars and usually pretty stinky hey John do you have the dosy dough in Canada you know what that is I've heard of the dosy it's American like square dancing rap your partner dosy dough we can dosy dough all night this is so fun I've been really impressed by how this every little town on this entire route has embraced us riders and they're desperate for us this year because there aren't many just a trickle they all say they're like we wish there were more but covid and we have our own yard for Mira to play in are you excited Mira go find a stick did you get the itch did you get it out oh you want to come say hi yes I got to have my good night kisses from Mira you are so good today at that steep hill yeah you were you were too John we know who the star of the show is yeah Mira is la estrella can you ever imagine touring without her now no I mean I have imagined it it would be physically way easier it wouldn't be as fun yeah do you have like some specific memories traveling with Mira that have just been that or outstanding from all the other ones uh yes at Ignacio in Baja Sur in the Baja Divide went into the grocery store set up the bike she's in the shade she's in her basket so a normal setup I can go in and she's comfortable but when I came out this time there were maybe half a dozen or more people with their cell phones posing with her taking pictures with her when I came out it was just a you know a small wall of of smiling Mexican faces yeah and that happens that sort of thing happens more often than not but that one sticks out yeah yeah hey Mira do you know that you're famous do you know that you're famous you're YouTube famous you have a lot of fans say hi to your fans whoo yeah she's distracted she doesn't care about fame she's not about fame she's about being a dog so many people around the world love you is it because you're sweet is that why they love you because you're a little bit goofy because you're good looking a mix of everything look at this little baby Mira you checking her feet yeah pretty good yeah yeah what are you checking for oh the pads mostly especially the front ones like the pad this in this position here that's an easy one to get a little flopper and you can see there's like you know some little scrapes and bits and the nails aren't broken and the only one I need to trim on this trip pretty much is this dew claw one yeah the rest of them just get worn it's like wearing out bike tires yeah pretty much it's good thing they grow back hey sweetheart ready to roll over ready this way ready whoa okay I have decided to sleep outside tonight I just like fresh air and there's a bit of a scent of like Lysol in there that I'm not loving but I do love that there's a bathroom I think John's sleeping in there tonight though I think so I'm gonna sleep on the main stage the main stage yeah rock and roll yeah another amazing day here on planet earth riding bikes with this guy and this girl thanks for thanks for joining the adventure yeah well thanks for having it of course man it's been a lot of fun it was last minute yep but uh yeah these towns you know that we pop through there there's always something gonna happen yeah there's always some road magic that's coming our way it seems like so it's it's good all right say good night to everybody say good night to everybody say good night say good night good night