So long rt 2

Goodbe rte 2, aka northern tier, aka high-line.

we've spent two solid weeks and almost a thousand miles together. i won't say i'll miss you, but .. but what?

2-lanes through montana, 4-lanes through north dakota.  sometimes with a nice shoulder, sometimes not so nice.  sometimes without a shoulder and just riding in the road.  and those couple of times in north dakota where i had the entire 2 east bound lanes to my own because they were closed to cars and trucks due to construction.  now that was sweet. 

good for relatively fast, straight riding.  ideal for averaging over a 100 miles a day and 'getting through' montana and north dakota.  the milk river and missouri river valleys, wheat fields and pastures, railroad depot towns spaced every 6-10 miles, canola and corn fields, rolling green hills, ponds and sloughs, and a variety of interesting and good people.

and wind, ever changing wind.  fantastic when it's at your back; a real bitch when you have to ride into it.