Ovando, MT → Helena, MT

Hey there! It was another hot day today, but it felt great compared to the last three days we complained about in yesterday's post. We stayed in Ovando, MT last night and felt like we'd gone back to the wild west. Most of the town sits on one dusty intersection. We first walked into "Trixie's Saloon" (turned out to have been previously owned an operated by a famous western vaudeville actress) last night. The patrons' reaction to our arrival was what you might expect when a couple in bright, skin-tight spandex walks into such an establishment. Everyone, bartender included, stopped what they were doing to look up at us and stare. Not a word of greeting was said. We mustered our faux confidence and acted as if we blended in. It seemed to work.

A more friendly couple from Missoula soon joined (Chris and Heather) and told us that we could stay in a room above the town's old-fashioned corner store. We fell asleep to the sounds of a small town Montana evening.