Rest Day #4 in Lima, Montana

June 30, 2026 was our fourth rest day.

After ten days riding in a row from Rawlins, and with the weather still cold and rain in the forecast, it was a no-brainer to stop for a rest day in Lima. It’s a tiny town but the Beaverhead Inn is a great place to rest and recharge.

We’ve now ridden 3000 km / 1864 miles and climbed 36,400m / 119,500′. We worked out how to get to the big city of Butte in a few days. From Lima, we’ll be taking an alternate route to avoid mud. We’re averaging 88 km per riding day, 79 km per day. Right on target!

We had drinks and muffins from the coffee shop which is tiny, and like last night’s food truck, is in the Beaverhead Inn parking lot. We sat outside but it was really too cold to enjoy.

We worked on bike stuff, and I talked to Neill who we rode with yesterday. We found that we had raced together in his home town back in 2004 in the Red Bull Mountain Mayhem 24 hour mountain bike (unicycle) race at Eastnor Castle in Malvern Hills, England. Small world.

There was a short period midday when the weather warmed up and we sat outside having pie and drinks. There was also some awesomely powerful thunder but little actual rain.

I think some naps occurred after that, then we shopped for beer and snacks for our afternoon movie, Bank of Dave 2, not as good as the original. I wanted to try the third little shop in the parking lot, a fancy ice cream vendor, but never made it happen.

After a nice video chat with Katie, we had about the same parking lot food truck dinner as last night, again with some extra snacks and drinks from the gas station store. Tonight’s movie was a wild one, Dogville. It’s long and as they say, “controversial and experimental.”