resting in Idaho/washington boarder

We're are just about a week in to our trip and we attempting to take a day off in the Clarkston Louiston area on the boarder of Washington and Idaho about to head onto the 12. The trip has been getting better with each day, or at least easier. Since i dont have the time to divulge into every ride we have I'll just talk about one in Oregon on the 730 i think it was. We rode about 30 miles straight through to Umatilla (which by the way is an awful town in my books) but on the way we just rode through endless vast dried up fields. It was actually really hot and dry and dusty, and about halfway through the rode Justin's trailer's tire pops and we have to change it and right as he is finishing up he looks back and sees a 30 foot tall dust devil heading straight for us, we all kinda scream holy shit and justins trying to get the wheel on his bike and we look around jareds already jumped on his bike and about ready to ride away without us. Luckily the mini sandstorm went around us. It was one of the more funny things to happen. The sandstorm came bike and combined with some smoke from a fire around the area. Had to bring out the bandito hankerchief to keep the dust out of my face but still a fun ride. Anyways thats a story of one of the more entertaining rides.
One of the nicest thing about this trip is that people give tons of handouts to cross country bikers already slept on some guys lawn when we couldnt find camping, and last night me and jared got about 8 beers for $5 dollars after talking to the bartender for a while. Riding has become easier i guess although at times still unbearable long and painfully hot. Not getting the greatest sleep but enough to stay up the next day, we have also been getting pretty good at conserving the right type of food without spending to much money. Lots of summer sausage and outmeal. We are about to ride into our 3rd state and ride the 12 straight through the top of Idaho over to Missoula and then down to yellowstone, that should definitely put our survivability to the test seeing as how that rode is about 200 miles of uphill with almost nothing on it. Anyway I can't type to long this time and im to lazy to check mistakes on this post but im having a lot of fun and seeing some really amazing rodes.