Day 14 Thompson Falls, Montana

To say this trip has been amazing so far is an understatement.  The friends that I have made are unbelievable and it is only day fourteen.  I cannot even begin to imagine how close all twenty-seven of us will be by the end of the summer.  Today we rode from Sandpoint, Idaho to Thompson Falls, Montana.  It was the second border we have crossed in the last three days, so it is pretty cool to see that we are actually making progress towards that big city on the east coast.  Like most of the days have been so far on this trip, we woke up to cold and wet conditions with just less than ninety miles to our destination.  The mountains and scenery just keep getting better and better each and every day, and it never fails to amaze me how beautiful each scenic viewpoint is along the road.  One of the coolest parts of today happened when we stopped for lunch.  We were in a parking lot of a gas station, and behind the building was somewhat of a farm.  A couple of us walked over there and started feeding grass to a baby horse.  Feeding this animal took our minds off the day for a brief second and how cold we were.  When we arrived in Thompson Falls, all I could think about was the town of Mayberry.  There is one major road that has all of the shops and restaurants on it, and if a person is standing at one end of the buildings, they have no problem seeing the other end.  It struck me as the kind of town where everyone knows everyone and almost nothing bad happens.  Thompson Falls is a pretty cool little town, and the restaurant where we ate was definitely tasty.  Because we are stopping in really small towns at the moment, it is hard to find organizations in every stop that we can partner up with for friendship visits, so we have not had one in a couple days.  I am definitely looking forward to our next one because those are what make the trip what it is cracked up to be.  Tomorrow we head to Missoula, which is supposed to be extremely nice, so I am pretty excited about that.  I would just like to thank everyone who has made this trip possible because I can already tell that it will be arguably the greatest summer of my life.