Team 2 Day 23 (Claire)

 We woke up this morning with a 60 mile day ahead of us. In our heads, it was gonna be a pretty easy day, after the 100 mile day we had just completed the day before. It started out with some uphills, as the landscape started to change from prairie to badlands, then another hill, then another one... unfortunately this ended up lasting just about all day. We were happy to come across a rest stop where we could take a break and vent about how many hills there were, and about what a tease it was to have flat riding and headwinds for ONE DAY after glacier, only to seemingly never come across such a thing again. At the rest stop, we took some time to read one of the historical signs we have become quite fond of throughout this trip, and soon learned that the county we were in was home to the Hell creek formation, where most of the worlds T-Rex and many other dinosaur fossils were unearthed! You better believe I used my excitement about the dinosaurs to distract myself from all the hills that we were met with throughout the rest of the day, and believe me there were many. Spirits were kind of low, but then we finally seemed to reach some flat land! Only 13 miles to our campground. We got to the bottom of the last hill and were met with some orange signs at the bottom of the hill. They read "Road Work Ahead, Grooved Pavement, Next 13 miles". Frustration would be an understatement of what we were feeling. We bit the bullet and continued on, and while bumpy bumpy pavement was not ideal, it was certainly better than endless hills. Maura and I forged ahead to a bar we had looked up so we could order some fries to be ready for the group when they all showed up. Once everyone had arrived, we proceeded to eat an absurd amount of fried food, and then made our way to camp. Maura and I ended the night by watching a dino documentary, which was awesome. That's all folks!

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