Wolf Point, MT

Alrighty, if you read other blogs from NUS B&Bers than you probably have heard about this night, but I get to tell you the entire story of Theodore Roosevelt from beginning to end.

So for one, Teddy Roosevelt Park is wonderful, there are tons of bison, awesome rock formations and an awesome downhill where I hit 50.0 mph for the first time this trip (thank you tail wind and passing semi for the draft).

We put up our tents at the group tent site (our tents are pretty bad [cheap coleman tents], and they were missing a lot of poles and stakes), so they were pretty rickety. I slept in one of the larger tents with Lindsey, Michelle, John R, Arianna, and Katrina. We started going to bed around 11:30, but 12:30 I still wasn't asleep since it was about 900 F in our tent. Lindsey decided to move outside since the day was very nice before. After about 10 minutes I followed her outside and we all moved under the tarp we had set up earlier to make some shade. About 2am or so (maybe earlier) Lindsey wakes me up because there is lightning going off in the distance and we think it might rain. So Lindsey and I, then Sean move all of our bags into the trailer as we are surrounded by 360 degrees of storms. We then moved the bikes under the eve of the bathroom. The three of us and Sharon (who just woke up as we moved the bikes around) put the tarp in the womens bathroom, ready to go to sleep.

Then the rain came, people started strapping down their tents, so I ran out and helped, getting quite wet in the process. And then the wind came... a huge branch fell down right next to the door so I decided we needed to get everyone out of the mostly flattened tents. Everyon one got out and then we decided to spend the rest of the night in the warmth of the bathrooms. The next morning the only signs of the storm was the flattened tents and some fallen branches, beautiful day and a slight tail wind at some points.