Well, yesterday is officially the hardest day on the trip and possibly in my life! We biked 94 miles and the first 60 were hills, big hills. We were on the road daylight to dark for 13 hours. We rode up to the office at the KOA campground in Great Falls, Montana and I promptly fell over on my bike with spectators all around greatly concerned with this old guy laying on the ground with his bike on top of him. I usually unlock my right foot from the pedal of the bike, brake, lean the bike to the right slightly, put my right foot down, and then unlock my left foot, but I was so tired I forgot to lean the bike to the right and it went left and over I went. Very embarrassing!

We had 7 miles of construction as well with wet muddy roads that got mud all over everything. It was impossible to ride in the gunk so we pushed our bikes through most of it.

i was so tired last night that I set up my tent and went to sleep and forgot to do my Bible reading. That is the first day I have missed in over 500 days!

today is a rest day! This is a nice campground with a nice hot tub, showers, and I plan on making good use of them as well as sleep a bunch.

we have bicycled 920 miles and are pretty close to 1/4 the distance of the trip. I am so thankful that most of the mountains, passes, hills are behind us!