Bozeman, MT to Rapid City, SD (503 Miles)
Today was brutal.
We started off as we had the last few days. Wrenching. The oil leaks have been taken care of. I changed my fuel filter to try and fix some top end issues in the hills (I still have the issue so tomorrow is the control module). Mike cleaned out his clutch to get rid of the last of the oil from the blown line. While doing this, we see that his rear tire has a growing bad spot. It's a little early for this to happen based on the mileage, but we have been riding hard.
The plan was to hit Yellowstone after the morning repairs, but it looks like we will skip this and head for Rapid City, SD while the HSTs (Home Support Teams) call around Montana, Yoming, and South Dakota to try and find a tire. This tire will most likely not make the 1300 mile back to Arkansas.
Good luck and one was finally found in a shop in Sturgis (yeah team!), which is only 20 miles outside Rapid City. We can have it changed late Tuesday morning, then spend a little time in the Black Hills.
More interstate. And to save the tire, we slow down to 60. So we tick away the miles. Lots and lots of miles.
And our standard afternoon rainstorm. Why does the road always stay under the clouds and never go into the light?
Double rainbow
And this wasn't the worst of it. Sorry for the video length. I'm not doing much editing on the road.
after a quick break, it got worse. I think we are riding into Hell.
Probably 60 mile an hour winds and we had to finally seek shelter 35 miles from Rapid City and wait it out and warm up. No video of this as we were doing our best just to hang on and ride sort of straight.
30 minutes later, we finished the trip, got to the hotel about 9:30 and called it a day. Good thing the deliver pizza. I'm not going out again.
Today's map:
Tomorrow: A tire change and the Black Hills.
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