Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Day 2.. Stillwater, MN to Cambridge, MN...74 miles.
We have ridden over 100 miles so far and are now about 35 miles from the airport, typical result for bicycle touring. Nice and cool up here in morning but hot and windy in PM. That bitch Mother Nature managed to keep the wind in our face going east yesterday and again today as we finally made the turn west.
We crossed the river at Stillwater into Wisconsin. Plenty of cow poop reminded us this is dairy country. After 30 miles and an early lunch we cross the St. Croix river back into Minnesota into a 15 mph, 92F headwind. We're finally headed towards Montana [forest fires and 100 degree temperatures]. If you have not guessed it our afternoon ride today will require a bath tub of Motrin to get over. Seventy four miles in these conditions was a work out. We plan to have an easy day tomorrow, pray for a wind shift, then pick up the pace again and be in Fargo, North Dakota early next week. Which remindes me, all the people we meet here in MN sound like those in the movie Fargo. I find myself saying ya a lot.
Had $15.00 early bird dinner at a Perkins. More food than a small nation could eat but we ate the whole thing and still had room for snackes before bed [I ate about 6 motel cookies, a Payday candy bar and a bag of popcorn].
Having problems send email on my PDA so this was written on a public library computer in Milaca. MN.
We crossed the river at Stillwater into Wisconsin. Plenty of cow poop reminded us this is dairy country. After 30 miles and an early lunch we cross the St. Croix river back into Minnesota into a 15 mph, 92F headwind. We're finally headed towards Montana [forest fires and 100 degree temperatures]. If you have not guessed it our afternoon ride today will require a bath tub of Motrin to get over. Seventy four miles in these conditions was a work out. We plan to have an easy day tomorrow, pray for a wind shift, then pick up the pace again and be in Fargo, North Dakota early next week. Which remindes me, all the people we meet here in MN sound like those in the movie Fargo. I find myself saying ya a lot.
Had $15.00 early bird dinner at a Perkins. More food than a small nation could eat but we ate the whole thing and still had room for snackes before bed [I ate about 6 motel cookies, a Payday candy bar and a bag of popcorn].
Having problems send email on my PDA so this was written on a public library computer in Milaca. MN.
