Mood:  hungry

It feels a little strange to have a rest day--and no you can't have it back!  I recognize the need for one's body to repair and recuperate so that is not the issue.  All of a sudden I don't have a schedule and goals (well maybe a few).  I just get to look around. 

This morning I rode over to Walgreens Pharmacy to pick up a prescription.  It was a nice 7 mile round trip to get the legs a little stretched out.

Being Saturday morning, Missoula had a Farmers Market happening, and a Craft Market too.  The latter was one block away.  The other was a few blocks further.

The rest of today will be spent making arrangements for next week:  securing lodging, checking gearand the bike, cleaning and wiping out and  my panniers, studying the maps until they are firmly engrained in my memory (if anything ever gets firmly engrained in my memory).  For the first time that I can recall, I have become a close watcher of the Weather Channel.  It is amazing that the East and West of America can be at such odds weatherwise--extreme heat East, and unseasonal cooness West.  The West is the part that I'm watching closely.  Low temperatures at West Yellowstone is in the mid-twenties.  I don't want to get stuck out on the road.

An interesting thing happened in Spokane (you do remember Spokane, don't you?).  I have not brought any books along because of weight, not even any devotional literature.  Instead I installed audiobooks onto an MP3 player (okay, okay, I wasn't able to get them installed myself.  I took them to someone with a higher technological IQ--my 11 year old grandson Andy, and he did it in 20 minutes.)  Lying on the pillow in my room at the Spokane Apple Tree Inn was a small three month devotional booklet whose name escapes me.  but it has become part of my daily devotions.  I have seldom been verbal about my beliefs, but I do believe that that small pamphlet was there for me.

I will probably not be able to update this log for a few days.