There was some dead of night rain in the park at Circle though not much. The park still looks as sun baked as when we arrived. Circle is a fairly remote place being 50 miles from the next town on one side and 67 miles on the other side. We did the 67 miles today and there is not much that breaks up the grasslands and badlands and sagebush. There is one point where water is available - a rest area about 36 miles out of Circle. It's an excellent rest area and we refilled our water there. It's right by Hell's Creek famous for its dinosaur fossils - Tyrannosaurus Rex has been unearthed here abouts. It would have had a different climate then. But today was not hot and was a long way from tropical - and until late afternoon the cloud cover was more than 50%. So although we set out with three litres of water we did not need this. There's a good store in Circle that we visited before leaving, carrying lots of high energy bars plus hummus and bananas. The wind was once again light but a tailwind, sometimes full east but varying and dropping during the afternoon. The road gets more hilly as you get towards Jordan, though these are long and gentle climbs. It reminded us a little of the rolling road at Tan Hill, huge views, ranges of hills. The road was being remade for about six miles just a bit beyond the rest area but fortunately this was no problem. We failed to keep up with the convoy car but it didn't matter since only one side of the roadway was being sealed with grit and tarmac today. We just rode on whatever side was sensible. We had some distance on recently laid chips - it reminded me of the bike path along the Erie Canal way back in NY State. We reached Jordan at about 4pm, pretty good timing - but it's good cycling with just a touch of hilliness, and we were on the road by 9.30am-ish. The two motels seemed a bit expensive at c. $90 so we are at the park again which has water and a toilet (chemical). We could do with a shower though it wasn't the sweatiest day. We discovered another favourite beer from the ride 20 years ago - Moose Drool - a brown beer with some decent caramel and coffee flavours. Outside the shop I talked to an old rancher. He said he commuted 60 miles each way to a ranch for work. In winter? Yes, not usually a problem because usually the snow is light but very cold - though some years there's a big snowfall. The old man knew everyone who passed by name - small town life. The park - Jimmy Kariotis Park - we are camping in has some deer warily grazing near by. We see so many dead at the side of the road that it is a great pleasure to see live ones close up. And I was surprised to see a Red Admiral butterfly. The hills here are now reaching over 3000' but we are not much lower - so we're in the foothills of the Rockies. The odometer said we'd done 3100 miles at some point during today's ride - so we have perhaps about 1200 miles to the Pacific in the shape of Puget Sound. We are here.