Day 19

Havre,MT - Dodson,MT (74 miles)

Oh Havre, we truely will not miss you. Today started with getting rained on at 1am. Fine. No problem. We can deal with rain (rainfly on).

Then at 3am we heard rushing water, and then our tent was getting hit, and then it was calm. 30 seconds later it got hit again. We opened the tent only to almost get hit with the sprinklers. "Quick! Zip up the tent! Holy crap, now what!?" Our tent got hit again, splashsplash. "We gotta do something. Quick, put something on the sprinkler." Splashsplash. "Like what?" Splashsplash. "I donno, a bag or something. Sara, is that you?" Splashsplash. "Hey, go stick your waterbottle on the sprinkler." Splashsplash. "Is that going to work? Won't it fly off?" Splashsplash. "I donno, just try it." Surprisingly it did work. So Sara and I ran around and placed waterbottles while Jeremy played "general" andw directed us from the tent (men).  We were fine for a bit and then different sprinklers turned on, but we knew how to quickly disarm them.

We didn't leave as early as we wanted due to the lack of sleep, and right as we were getting on the road, Sara's back tire went flat. We just couldn't leave!

Finally by noon we were on the road. It was a weird day up until we got to Dodson. Dodson was a little odd too, but we got to go to the fair, camp for free, and shower. It was a great experience. Tons of young dudes in stetsons and young girls in daisy dukes. There was live music, cheeseburgers, and kettlecorn. After a frustrating evening/morning in Havre, Dodson was the perfect salve.