Sunday June 19, Roundup to Forsyth, MT

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Wide open spaces 

 Last night we had looked up times of worship services at churches in Roundup. But all seemed to be later in the morning and we wanted to get an early start as rain and thunderstorms were predicted later in the day. Then fo

und out that  the Community Bible Church in Musselshell, a small town 24 miles along our route, had a service at 9 am. So we got up about 5:00 a.m. and left a little bit after 6:00 a.m., skipping the motel breakfast so we could get there on time. We saw whitetail and mule deer and even a sleeping bald eagle on a power pole who didn’t wake up until we were almost past. We also saw some medium brown vertical rock faces that had streaks of a dark color running down them. We called them the chocolate syrup cliffs. We had a little bit of light rain on the way there and arrived well on time. The sermon was on Hebrews 7, how Jesus is an advocate for us and the people were very welcoming. After about 12 more miles we came to Melstone and they had a mercantile with everything from a small counter to eat at to hardware equipment to groceries, you name it they had it. We discovered that our cell phones had no service so we used their landline to call ahead to Ingomar, where we had found 2 possible places to stay, a campground and a hostel-type place. The campground’s message said it was closed permanently, the other place we tried multiple times and kept getting a busy signal. So we decided to look when we got there, and if not then continue on to Forsyth, which would be a big day for us, but doable as the wind was favorable and it was cloudy and cool. At Ingomar, there were a few ramshackle buildings by the highway and the buildings back from the highway didn’t look much better so we pressed on, riding through very desolate country. At mile 97, it started to rain hard and we got quite wet as we rode the last 7 miles into town.