The Fun of the Road

I made a completly random stop in Lincoln, MT because it was two hours closer to my destination and a a few campsites to choose in a National forest. I ended up crashing the biggest coed softball tourney/party in Montana.

I was really annoyed at first because of all the craziness in the camp ground and ballfield complex. There were numerous ATVs, trucks and motorcycles crusing the campground like high schools in Morris on a Saturday. There was even a freakin' pony!

So I set up camp an hour before dark, after an exhaustive search for another option. Of course the only spaces left were the worst ones, no flat ground with pine cones, sticks and thistles everywhere. After set up a couple of guys walked up and asked what I was doing here. They were amazed that my random stop put me in the one weekend when this tiny town is host to Montana's super aoftballers.

This event probably triples the size if the town if not more. In about one minute they invited me to party with them and rock the town bars with the other teams. Of course I did what any road tripper should do, I joined them. Now Im working on maybe two hours of sleep with a few hundred miles left to Portland

The photo you see is from the trip to Lincoln yesterday to see a softball pic head over to Flickr.

posted by Dan Flies @ 8/17/2008 09:49:00 AM