Monday. It’s been a very relaxing layover day in Missoula. Slept in until 6:15am. Had a great leisurely breakfast at perkins family restaurant lingering over several cups of coffee without being concerned about where to dump the excess. Keeping to a long standing tradition we were hosted for a cookout lunch and tour of the adventure cycling headquarters. They took an official group photo which gets posted somewhere. While in downtown Missoula I bumped into Patrick and Virginia(pictured below). This is a father/daughter team that we first crossed paths with back in carbondale, Illinois and have seen occasionally ever since. They’re breaking off the route so they can visit glacier national park so we won’t see them again. Adventure cycling was founded in Missoula in 1973 and has been a major advocacy group for all aspects of bicycling. I’m sure their efforts alone have made Missoula one of the most bike friendly communities in the country. Bikes and bike lanes are everywhere. Now I must correct an important error in the data. When a mentioned the completion of 3000 miles a few days ago and with an apparent 1300 miles remaining donna astutely pointed out that the 3000 miles were ridden in just over 9 weeks and the remaining 1300 miles would be ridden in about 2 and a half weeks. As it turns out she was absolutely correct. The 3000 mile mark was correct attested to by my garmin. The daily number of miles are correct, but the total printed on our calendar(4305) is not. From july 16th when we reached 3000 we will have 1031 left for an official grand total of 4031. I will report my total as calculated by my garmin.