The campground at Whitefish Lake is very good - showers, toilets and water are excellent. The train line, though, borders the site and does not stop running during the night.... I've a recording of a train made late in our evening there.. this link may give you the train sound train sound - it takes a while to get to full glorious train, persist.. The lake is pretty but not a great swimming spot - bit murky, shallow for a long way... We set off reasonably early to get to Eureka. The route started off on the 93 which is fairly busy near Whitefish and has little or no hard shoulder with a speed limit of 70mph. Not ideal. The route soon turns off via rolling valley roads. This is a big development area - basically it's being turned into very low density suburbia for Whitefish. Pleasant bike riding though. Then another longer stint on the 93 - fewer cars since most traffic is local in the USA (people rarely walk or bike even for short distances, even more so than in the UK). At Olney we found lunch in the form of large toasted cheese sandwiches with crisps, so we're not short of carbs for the coming miles. Then another 20 miles before we got to a petrol station (coconut ice creams) and our next pleasant meander avoiding the 93 - the OldHighway and the Tobacco Road.
The Great Divide mountain bike route comes through here and we met Larry, just a week out and having cycled over from Canada via the Great Divide route. He's heading south to keep ahead of cooler and damper weather as the summer ends. He was carrying lightweight camping stuff and food along with cooking stuff. As said before, being able to cook is something that appeals... Rice, veg, etc, in remote country, washed down with coffee or tea is a nice idea - more like the early pioneers of these remoter areas. The bike looks very suitable for off road. Larry is from Maryland near Washington DC. Guy does look a bit as if he's using the bike as a zimmer frame, and he's not really gained weight, he's lost it during the last two months... We crossed the Great Divide route in 2004 (and we must have done so in 2014) and met various dividers - I'll add a link to those entries. Shortly after meeting up with Larry we arrived in Eureka. We are camping at the city park ($10) but there are no showers and no easy access to water when the museum is closed. And there are sprinklers... this may be a bit tedious tomorrow since rain, possibly heavy, is predicted. We were thinking of hanging around in the tent until the rain eased but that may be tricky with sprinklers. [8am - no sprinklers yet...]. We are here.