I traveled about 96.5 miles today.
My relative good fortune when it comes to mechanical issues came to an abrupt end today. Within fifteen miles of leaving Sandpoint, I got two flat tires (one from glass, the other from a truck tire wire).

Before I had even made it to Newport, I heard a loud twang! My rear wheel had broken a spoke. I have spare spokes, but this was on the drive side, and I didn't bring a cassette remover, so I couldn't replace it. The wheel was bent really far out of true, so I was worried about putting too much tension on the remaining spokes if I straightened it out.

I called Angie, my host for tonight, who gave me a number of a mobile bike mechanic, offered advice on an alternate and shorter route to Colville, and offered to give me a ride if I needed. Super nice and helpful.

I ended up using my spoke wrench to straighten the wheel out to rideable condition, and continued on towards Newport. By the time I got there, my rear tire was flat again. The bike shop in Sandpoint had sold me the pre glued patches, telling me that they would work with the glue from a regular patch kit, since they didn't sell extra normal patches. Sufficed to say, pre glued patches are entirely garbage. I used two of my three remaining patches in Newport to fix up my rear tube, then continued on towards Usk and Flowery Trail road. After turning off of 20 and onto Flowery Trail, my front tire went flat. I think that the rim hadn't been taped properly, but it hasn't been a problem until now. Added a layer of duct tape inside the rim to cover the exposed edges for the spoke nut hooks, then tried to use a pre glued patch without any extra glue. Garbage again! What's more, when I tried using a regular patch (my last one), the residue from the bad patch kept the normal patch from forming a good bond with the tube. I ended up having to swap out for my last spare tube. I now had a rideable bike, but no patches or spare tubes, spokes that could break any minute, and the handling felt really weird, I think from the rear wheel.