[hiawatha trail]

So a few Fridays ago was the last day that I had off from work :( We made the best of it and went to the Montana-Idaho state line to bike the Hiawatha Trail. This has been on the top of our to-do list since..... well, since we started dating almost. You can read some history here. It began as a railroad track started by some non-profit groups. However, it was abandoned and never saw any commercial activity. In 1998, it opened as a recreational area. It is just over a 15-mile ride and has 9 tunnels (the first one is 1.7 miles and pitch black. Terrifying, I tell you.) You also going over some trestles. These were beautiful as long as I made it a point to look out over the scenery and not down!

It was awesome. Until the last rocky, bumpy, dusty, dirty mile. That wasn't fun. BUT at the end, a lady called me out because I had on a Tennessee shirt. After a few minutes of talking, we realized that we were from the same city, went to the same church, had the same friends, and attended some of the same events back home.... so it was a sheer miracle that we had never met. Their family now lives in Washington state doing ministry there. It was so nice to talk about home together for about an hour on the shuttle ride back to the cars!