>North to Alaska – 6
>
>June 25, 2007
>
>Today was a relatively easy day, 340 miles or so. We woke up a little 
>late but were on the road close to 8:00. There were clouds and sun and 
>it was already getting hot. Not to fear. As soon as we started riding 
>it became overcast….grey, black, white, everything but blue. We didn’t 
>suit up and we didn’t get rain. Today was another interstate day. Out 
>here though there are almost as many RVs as there are trucks and there 
>weren’t many of either. Last night we tried to find some anti Monkey 
>Butt powder (medicated Gold Bond) because we were both hurting a bit. 
>There wasn’t any in Moorcroft, our home for the night, but we did get 
>some baby powder. It didn’t work so well. We finally found the Gold 
>Bond near the border to Montana after a great breakfast. We didn’t fill 
>up because we wanted another break in 30 to 40 minutes. The fuel in 
>Wyoming is a bit expensive so I thought I would wait to get fuel in 
>Montana. There were signs all along the rte 90 that warned us if we 
>wouldn’t have services for say 31 miles, or 16 miles. So when I was 10 
>miles from the border and I didn’t see any signs I assumed (this always 
>gets me into trouble) we would see another gas station shortly….oh 
>well. We were both 25 miles into our reserves before we found some gas. 
>This place was a little run down. It had 4 double pumps and only ½ of 
one was working…at least we had gas!
>
>Jim noticed on the way into the gas station that his shift lever was loose. 
>It looked to us that it was a design problem and after finding the 
>correct size wrench, in the store, we were able to get it back together 
>again and it was secured with a tie wrap! Jim wasn’t able to get it 
>fixed at a local Kawasaki dealer in Red Lodge, Montana, our home for 
>the night but the tie wraps should hold. We are about 70 miles of great 
>motorcycle roads from Yellowstone. We are on the Beartooth Highway 
>which takes us through a pass of about 10,500 ft. Then it will be a 
>ride through Yellowstone…we hope. The weather forecast is good, the 
>other two guys, Tom and Alan, will be in Yellowstone, maybe we’ll see them,  
and we can’t wait to see Old Faithful.
>
>With a short day today and another tomorrow we hope, our butts will get 
>a break. I hope they like the Gold Bond!