I dallied in the morning before leaving still worried that the Going to the Sun Road wouldn’t open the following day, then at about 10:30 a text from the Glacier NP information service (I signed up for) said that it had opened it today! No chance in getting it in today but that’s okay the weather tomorrow looked much more promising for good views. Beverly told me about a better route to Glacier than I had taken to and from Glacier earlier. It had way less traffic, thank you Beverly.
When I arrived at Apgar campground, I set up my tent in a hiker biker campsite. Essentially they have three or four campers on the same campsite. It might sound less than ideal, but they only charge us eight dollars a night and most of the time hikers and bikers are good people. This night I was camping with two people, Cooper was from South Carolina and had just graduated High School and he was taking a trip to a bunch of different National Parks to celebrate. It took me till after graduating college to do something cool like that. This kids is living right.
The other person I was Camping with was Patrick from the UK. He has been bike touring for the last 6 weeks and had ridden on the coast of Oregon and now was at Glacier and planning to ride Going to the Sun road tomorrow He asked if I wanted to ride together. I thought that sounded like a smashing idea. He had just finished his PhD and was celebrating before he has to defend it and go to a great job in London he has lined up. 
Eating ice cream while looking at Lake McDonald should be illegal.
Slow and Steady 
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