Today was one of the best (except for the antelopes and the last 30 minutes). We traveled about 270 miles getting in about 2:30 local time.
The temperature was moderate until after 1:00 PM (then it quickly got up to 90 degrees. The roads were two lane (all US 2) and the speed limit was 70 MPH. We made maybe 3 turns all day. That's not necessarily ideal motorcycle riding but little traffic, no real challenges, and just moving along.
There were a variety of road sights and not much change in scenery. Most of traffic on the road were large harvesters for the wheat fields. Then there were slow moving harrows which took up almost the whole road way. The harvesters were all going east (we were going west). The harrows were going east but we only had to follow them for a few miles before we stopped for a break or they turned off the road.
The size of the wheat fields in western Montana is still amazing. We traveled for 20 or 30 without seeing a house or structure and then there was a clump silos.
Yes there were some houses here and there but they were very few and far between.
We did see two antelope. One, as she crossed the road, and the other about 100 feet off the road waiting to cross. The female crossed about 200 feet in front of so we slowed down a little waiting for the second one. Which waited for us to pass, just sort of watching us go by.
The last 30 minutes of the trip were spent in some extreme cross winds. Sort of like the trip across Minnesota. Tomorrow we head to Glacier National Park and the Highway to the Sun, which is why we are in north western Montana.
Wheat Fields
There was a Wal Mart on the way so we stopped for some stuff. You always need something you left behind.
Did I say the road was fairly straight?
And one of the many silos loading grain on a train. The train is on a circular track around silos. The scale is hard to determine but they can be seen from a long way off.
The storm that caused cross winds. It was to the south of us.
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