DAY 16

West Yellowstone, Montana to Idaho Falls, Idaho

We cheated! Well, kind of. We rode briefly through Montana, into Idaho, along a monotonous stretch for a while, before we paused roadside for a toilet break. Then a pick-up truck pulls over, starts reversing back towards us, and we're thinking surely we're not getting busted for the roadside wizz, when out jumps Sharon and Kim, whom we kept bumping into all over Yellowstone. They offered us a lift, and after a day like yesterday, we accepted. These kind folk are on holiday from Michigan, are big potato farmers back home, and basically were completely amazed and mildly obsessed with what we were doing (Sharon was on he phone to her family telling them to guess what they'd never believe who she'd bumped into again!). Sharon was overjoyed at being able to help us out. So were drove through Idaho's famous potato country, then they shouted us lunch (much to our protests, it was also Kim's birthday) and donated $100 to Bicycles for Humanity. It was great to spend an entire day with two strangers, now friends, and to know the kind of impression we're having on some people. A big thankyou to them both for everything. Great people. As an added bonus we skipped the ugliest stretch of busy highway on the whole route.