Watertown

I woke up this morning to another flat rear tire 🤬. Here's my timeline:
- 0600: I realize I have another flat. 😭 Luckily, I'm still at the campground 🫡
- 0615: I call Harley Roadside Assistance (Agero) 🤞
- 0745: I walk to Pipestone National Monument 👍
- 0845: I'm finished at Pipestone and call Agero back about the tow. No provider yet. 🤦 I hold while she makes calls. She finds a provider. [The system didn't find a provider, and when that's the case, it's supposed to assign the case to a human. It didn't, so no one was working on getting me towed. I HATE AGERO.] 🤬
- 0900: I call provider. Dispatcher Jeremiah says the driver will be there in two hours. 👍
- 0910: I walk to Post Office to mail stuff home 👍
- 0945: I walk to diner for breakfast 👍
- 1030: I walk back to bike in campground
- 1040: Driver Richard calls to say he's leaving Sioux Falls and will be there in two hours. WTF?🤬
- 1041: I call dispatch back to find out why they told me two hours when it took almost that long just to dispatch a driver. Jeremiah's not in, but other guy says they're busy 🤦🤬
- 1107: Jeremiah calls to say how busy they are. I told him he should've just told me instead of lying to me about the time. I didn't have a choice but to use them, so he should've been truthful with me about the time. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
- 1200: Bike is loaded and I'm in the tow truck headed to Sioux Falls 👍
- 1630: Back on the road with a new rear tire and oil change. 😁 Only made it to Watertown because big storms further north moving east (where I'm also headed). ☹️

Now I have a tire strapped to my bike. Instead of speaking with me like I asked, they just changed the tire. I ran over a huge nail, but as long as the inside of the tire isn't burred, I can still run on a punctured tire (my tires are tubed). Since the tire only has less than 1,000 miles on it, and they cost $250 a pop, I'm taking it with me.

Now I'm hunkered down at Glacial Lakes HD hoping the rain doesn't find me. I've walked over three miles in my riding boots, so my feet are killing me. I also realized that in the hullabaloo of today, I lost my good knife and my medicine wheel 😭.

I just want to curl up and cry.

Not a good day.

So long [for now], and thanks for all the fish! ✌️

Day 125 mileage: 103.0 😭 (total 788.4 + 24568.7)
HD Dealerships: 1 (total 216)
National Parks: 1 (total 44 in 24 states)
10 Rides for 2022: 0 (total 7 of 10)
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