A few years back I rode a 2 week section of the Great Divide Trail from Lincoln MT to Teton NP. It was my first trip using a BOB trailer and I had my tent attached outside the trailer bag with bungie cords. At the end of a gorgeous day that began at the town of Lima I stopped and dicovered that the tent had bounced off from under the bungies somewhere back after a day of fast riding on bumpy dirt roads.

It was late afternoon and I was approaching my destination of Lakeview at Red Rocks Wildlife Refuge at least 40 miles from the start. I started re-tracing back over the bounciest section. Stopped at an intersection where I found a newspaper that had been under the same bungie but did not find the tent after a long search. I ended up riding all the way back to Lima with stops here and there looking for the tent so I logged over 80 miles of dirt that day. Lacking a tent I stayed at the motel in Lima. Yep, one of those days!

I repeated the ride to Lakeview the next day. I finished the trip a few days later in Bozeman where I was meeting the ACA to staff a Cycle MT supported tour. Bought a new tent when I got there.