A little mishap

The city of Lewiston Clarkston marks the place where Lewis and Clark embarked on canoes to bring to its destination their expedition to the Pacific Coast. It's today a pretty much non descript industrial town that we reached after a beautiful ride through the corn and wheat fields of Washington State. Brown, yellow and ocre mix in a marvelous natural symphony with the rolling hills being cultivated from top to bottom. It's also the place where Steve noticed a white ribbon shaped mark on my rear tire, where the cord was showing. No good, that meant that I had no rubber left on it and that it could deflate at any point. I had hoped to make it to Jackson Hole where I had made an appointment at a Triumph dealer to have a tire change after putting 7K miles on it but that was obviously over optimistic.
There was no hope to find a place to fix it in Lewiston Clarkston on a sunday and motorcycle shops are usually closed on mondays. So we decided to try to reach Missoula in Montana, 200 miles to the East and try our luck there. I did not like a bit riding with that near dead tire on the Northwest Passageway through Idaho and kept my speed under 60 mph throughout, Steve standing by to help in case of a sudden flat.
After a cold night camping out near Lowell - where we saw a splendid Citroën 2CV coming all the way from Texas - we got to Missoula monday at noon. Steve decided to push ahead to spend two days in Yellowstone and I was resigned to wait for the Triumph dealer to open on tuesday to have my tire fixed and then to meet Steve in Jackson Hole on wednesday night.
No sooner Steve had disappeared down Route 93 that I found a little motorcycle shop that has the right size of tire in stock !!! I couldn't believe my luck and within two hours was on the road again, chasing Steve with the hope of catching up with him on tuesday somewhere in Yellowstone. The ride through Open Sky country in Montana took me at sunset in Livingston where, by an other stroke of luck, I checked in the same motel where Steve was staying. So we'll finally do Yellowstone together tomorrow and thursday.
By the way, the picture is of Mount Hood overlooking the Columbia River.