Okay, so it's giardia, but it's okay. I promise.

So I got Kelvin's camera, which explains the absurd amount of pictures.

Here's the update. They're being treated for giardia, but it's not as bad as we'd feared. They're going to be on antibiotics for the next five days, and they're already feeling a lot better because of the pills they've been given. The energy level is still really low, and we're going to hang out in Lander until they feel fit to ride. They've been watching what they eat a lot more closely, and the pills they're taking are the same ones given to recovering alcoholics, so apparently if they drink anything alcoholic over the next 8 days they'll be spending a lot of time with the toilet. I've apparently lucked out big time, and am not feeling the symptoms, even though I possibly also have giardia. Weird. And awesome for me.

Let's get back to the daily recounts, shall we? I've got a lot of ground to catch up and I think it's best if we just leave this worrying behind us.

Day 17 Sunday July 6: Rest day in Missoula, MT 0 miles
A much needed day of rest after yesterday's (I'm back in journal mode, so yesterday means July 5) 115 mile journey and subsequent night on the town. We laze around in the morning, checking out the Montana University campus a few blocks away from Laurel, Anna, and Oriana's pad. Then Nate and Kelvin set off for some breweries (apparently Missoula has something like 4 of them) while I stay in the library to work on this. The other breweries are closed, but we eventually meet up at Bayern Brewing Company, which only has pretty crappy light beer and an awesome giant chess board with giant chess pieces. After some time there we head out to the local lanes, Westside Lanes is a snazzy new and overly sterile bowling alley with great white russians. After a few games we drive out to 'the spot,' up on the hill overlooking all of Missoula. A beautiful day with little to no energy expenditure. Beautiful.

Day 18 Monday July 7: Missoula to Hamilton, 50.83 miles
Because the other breweries had been closed, we decided to hang out for the afternoon, check out some of the places we'd missed, and leave later in the day...

AARgh! Sorry, y'all. This is the problem with public computers. I'm over my time and there are people waiting. I'll try and find something better here in Lander, but if I don't and the guys are feeling good by tomorrow, the next update should be in Laramie in about 4 days. Hope everyone is doing well, we're all still having a great time, despite all of the outside influences.