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Thursday 5th August 2004

view above EnnisFrom Ennis Camper Corner to Dillon, Sacajawea Motel - 70 miles on route. After breakfast in a cheap but tasty cafe on main street, and a short while updating web pages, we headed out up the 2000 foot climb to Virginia City. This was at times steep, but a nice steady climb and with excellent views. Downhill a little bit to Virginia City, which is a museum piece and very interesting. Visited library - very pleasant - and checked email. Virginia City is a bit limited on food for cyclists - in the sense of cheap and rapid carbs, so we pushed on and on, until we reached Alder where a cheap convenience store solved our problem. Virginia City is a gold rush town, as most seem to be round here. Got to Sheridan, where we hoped to find the bookshop, coffee place and internet cafe mentioned by a transAm person in 1998 (in their now disappeared web diary), but it had gone the way of the Dodo. Sad. There was a bakery with very nice apple and cinnamon pastries though! In Sheridan we watched as a young man locked himself out of the car, while his girlfriend (?) said 'What have you done?!' . We noticed that her t-shirt said 'I love nerds'. Well, a very understandable feeling, but clearly there are limitations. A policeman saved the day with a quick lesson in breaking into cars. Then on to Two Bridges, where we sheltered in the restrooms from a large rainstorm, then on to Dillon, and a road being rebuilt. Found a cheap motel - Sacajawea, as we got into Dillon (32.10 dollars). After a brief visit to Safeway's down the road from the motel, we settled down with a huge heap of food. Managed to find the BBC World News on the TV, which was nice - most channels are very tedious and unwatchable, with endless adverts and cheezy presenters. As is common in the USA , more choice means less.

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