Past The Big City of Billings, Montana

As I previewed last week, my route took me right through Billings, Montana this week, on Thursday actually. By now I am at least 15 miles out of town, near a place called Badbaby Coulee, which is...a valley with an interesting name. I have posted some pictures of the wilderness, so a city makes a nice change.

Billings is in fact the largest city in Montana by a good measure, with nearly 110,000 residents, which makes it less than half the size of Fremont, the 16th largest city in California. In fact, California has 62 towns with more people than Billings, but you can see that Billings is an actual city with big buildings and stoplights and, as promised, sidewalks.

I am still sort of, roughly, following I-90, which I crossed in Billings and will cross again soon. We won't really leave it behind until South Dakota. If I had taken a car instead of walking, I would have followed a similar route and arrived in Billings after two days, and in Rapid City, South Dakota on day three, which means my walking is about 1/100th as fast as driving. Five miles per day versus 500, so that's about right.

My new streak is thirteen days over 10,000 steps per day. Only missed four days out of 107 this year.