what a day!!!...back NOT good day for the back and other things, incredible pain!!! (bitch, moan, whine and complain)...23 miles with 43,574...forgot the Camleback with extra socks AND water!!!, downhill from there!!!...finally made it through Cut Bank and stopped at Ethridge post office...found two pennies...good thing we get to clean the slate EVERY second of the day!!!...a special thanks to "Kathy" from Cut Bank who stopped with a crisp new $20 bill...walkie-talkies are strictly line-of-sight, as soon as I go over a hill no contact and on the broad, BROAD prairie not all that many spots to pull over, flexible!!!...biting bugs, did I say biting bugs!?!?!?, so at the end of the day I stopped to buy some bug spray...stopped in Cut Bank to buy a new back  pack, this one is on the hips ONLY with room for two water bottles with NO pressure on the back, soooooooo I guess that was the "silver lining"!!!...OK the socks are washed, dinner has been eaten, dishes washed and the blog updated sooooooo it is time for bed and start it again tomorrow...the 14th is the two year anniversary of the passing of Ross, my nephew and all around nice guy...some things in life I do not understand, so I will make no attempt and just accept things as they are and go for a walk...cheers