The Adventure Begins....

<-- One of many planes we rode in today

I learned many years ago in math class that the closest distance between two points is a straight line. Why then did the most inexpensive flight ticket we could find take us from Fort Wayne, IN to Chicago, IL to Dallas/Fort Worth, TX to Denver, CO to Billings, MT, a flight mileage of over 2000 miles? That was our route today as we made our way to our stopping point last summer in Lewistown, MT. We will take the last flight up to Lewistown tomorrow and start bicycling on Thursday, June 29th. Everything went well today...at first. When we arrived in Dallas/Fort Worth we found that the next
United flight on our itinerary was delayed. This meant that we would miss our connection to Billings. To make a loooong story short, we found another flight on Frontier Airlines to Denver. The only problem was that this flight arrival time was perilously close to the departure time of the Billings' flight. After running through the Denver airport, we found that the Billings' flight was also delayed so we ended up having to wait for some time to go on to Billings. We finally arrived in our hotel room at 3:15 a.m. Indiana time nearly 14 hours from when we left Fort Wayne.
Our bikes and trailers along with the stove and fuel tanks preceed us. We sent those ahead to the High Plains Bike and Ski shop where Mark, the owner, has them assembled and ready for our use. We will have a reunion with our bikes and trailers tomorrow afternoon.
The weather in Billings is clear with a promise of a 94 degree high temp tomorrow. Billings is located in the southcentral part of Montana at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. When we look to the west, we can see a fairly high bluff (they call the "rim") from the hotel parking lot. Judging from the Billings Gazette, the "Magic City" as they call themselves, is an up and coming community in Montana. It even has its own professional minor league baseball team. This brings us to the question of the day....What is the name of Billings' minor league baseball team. Tune up your internet research skills and see if you can find the answer to that question. If you find it, email it to , or if you are on our email notification list, you may just reply to that email. Good luck!
-Clarkwheel