Me and Mike decided with long weekend to do something we have wanted to do for a long time, we drove about 8 hours to ride the Hiawatha trail. The kids didn’t think 17 hours in the car sounded fun, so we left them home. We had a little mishap about two hours into our drive, long story short, the bikes ended up dragging on the freeway for 20 seconds or so. 🫣 (bike locks fault…not Mikes) 3 hours, 3 bike shops, and two tires later we were back on the road!
We wanted to be to the trail early, according to our watch’s we got there right at 8:30 when the trail opens. We were the only people there! No workers nothing, we decided to just start. We rode through the first long tunnel (1.66 miles) half way through you cross from Montana to Idaho then we continued on when I checked my watch and it said 8:06! We jumped time zones! Again not our fault, how were we supposed to know the crazy time zones up here? (We checked a map at lunch, they are weird)Anyway we went nice and slow and really enjoyed our ride. We even got to see a few deer. 🦌 We thought about riding again, but the shuttle at the end was sooo slow! Mike probably could have ridden back to the top in the time we waited for it to come.
After our ride we went to Wallace and had lunch at Blackboard Cafe, saw the center of the universe, did a 4 mile hike (Pulaski tunnel trail) and drove through Burke which was supposed to be a ghost town. It was a good day! We got on the road early so we could roast hotdogs with the kids and celebrate the 4th of July. Happy Independence Day!
