Pay no attention to this map; it is our original and no-abandoned route
We left Waterton
Lakes early in Das Car, headed for Fernie on a beautiful cloudless
morning. Tooling along at 110 kph
is so easy in a car, and kind of boring.
We made it to Fernine before 0730 and after grabbing a cup of coffee and
some food for the road, we went straight to the ski station where we’d stashed
Das Bike.
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| I would like to ski Fernie next winter |
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| Arm of Kootenai Lake that borders Hwy 93 into the US |
We got into our riding
kit quickly, made arrangements for the car to be returned to the rental place
in town, and headed back up where we’d come from a few days earlier.
A brisk tailwind helped
a lot and whenever we get a tailwind we cross our fingers and hope that it
doesn’t back. It didn’t, and we
made it to the junction at Elko to turn south toward the US border crossing at
Roosville. There are no signs at
the Customs station telling bikes how to proceed, so we just jumped in line
with the cars. I guess it gave the
folks in the cars something to talk about. But the guy at Customs was great, far more interested in our
itinerary than where we’d been and where we are from. We cleared quickly and found a back road into Eureka.
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| Canada / US border at Roosville. We're near as big as a car, might as well act like one |
Eureka is an old town
that has seen better days. We did have a nice late afternoon snack at Jax Diner, and the B&B we are staying in is
great (the “hostess” left after we arrived – we are the only people in the big
house). That’s OK. We plan to get an early start and get
to Whitefish by lunch, and more importantly, before the hottest part of the
day.
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| Eureka, Montana |
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| Our home for the night. |
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And finally, our beer for the night. Since we can't ride Going to the Sun, we might as well drink it!
Cheers!
Onward toward Yellowstone. A demain.
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