Today my friend Bill Cocanour joined me on the ride and pulled the whole day. His wife Gale followed along and sagged for Bill. It was mostly big rollers working us generally up hill to Gillette. Gillette is the county seat of Campbell county and centrally located in a large coal, oil and coal bed methane area. Devil's tower is 60 miles to the north. Gillette is in the Powder River Basin formed by the Big Horn mountains to the west and the Black Hills to the east. Tomorrow we cross into state number five, South Dakota, on our way to Custer SD. My friends Tim Carolan and Kathleen Kirk from Tucson are doing well on their first cross country ride. Tim won the Big Horn Mountain hill climb competition yesterday. Kathleen, who has only been riding a bike for a relatively short time, finds ways to keep it moving to the east. Quite an accomplishment on a very difficult transcontinental ride.