Broadus, MT → Alzada, MT → Rapid City, SD

After our long day into Broadus, we turned off the alarms and woke up late (7:30) on Monday. There aren't many towns in southeast Montana; the next town with anything more than a post office and a school house, Alzada, was 56 miles away, and the town after that, Belle Fourche, South Dakota, was another 40 miles. Given our slight fatigue after the 115 mile day and a weather forecast showing a headwind, we opted for a shorter day to Alzada.

We grabbed breakfast at the Cashway Cafe and hit up the grocery store for food provisions. The town of Broadus has only 450 people, but from our first encounter outside Big Sky Bar with Scott, an 80's era Blackhawk helicopter crew chief from the 82nd Airborne, to our conversations with random interested locals, Broadus charmed us.