Gorgeous!

Buddy, thanks for the route suggestions. I modified my route to follow your back road suggestions south and north of Bigfork. But not the gravel road coming in to Big Fork because I would stay in a hilltop motel outside of the downtown area. I think the Montana loop will work well for me because the daily distances and daily ascent are well "balanced".

You have some interesting future tours. Your Montana loop covers some ground that I was planning on riding last year until my plans got sidetracked a bit - still hope to ride it someday. FWIW, as part of that planning effort, I developed a couple of maps that may be of interest to you. My Condon to Bigfork map includes an alternative routing that gets you off the highway a bit; https://ridewithgps.com/routes/43092198, and my Bigfork to Whitefish map may be of some use to you as it also attempts to avoid the busier roadways; https://ridewithgps.com/routes/43098287. Since I've never ridden the route I can't vouch for them, but I did what study I could do using Google Earth and RWGPS street views. Looking forward to reading about your future tours,

That’s how I remember it anyway. Greyhound required boxes back then.

Bus ride?

Nice to meet you Charmaine. I hope you enjoy the journals. I try to include information that other cyclists would want to know. I notice you have done a lot of bike tours but have no journals posted here. You might have fun creating a journal that is a digest of all your tours similar to my 1988-2002 Bike Tours "journal" which has one page per tour, with the route map, a couple photos, and a little bit of text for each tour. You could also upload your favorite bike tour self-portraits to your Profile page. Or just scenic pictures of your touring bike if you're in the Witness Protection Program. Food for thought... Thanks for all the comments!

I've stayed at the Geiser Grand Hotel - it was lovely. :)

Odd to name the theatre "Eltrym" (Myrtle spelled backwards). Guess they thought it would be eye-catching.

I liked Baker City. :)

I've biked this road - I remember the wind turbines.

Nice that you vary your ride distances, and I appreciate that you stop to take pictures and actually SEE what you're riding by. :)

Thanks for including the history of the Rajneeshpuram sign - that was very interesting!

Your B&B you stayed at reminds me of a neat old Victorian B&B I stayed at in Missouri near the Rock Island Trail.

Nice B&B you stayed at. :)

Yum - a place to buy mushrooms - - too bad they were closed...