Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Day 9 Pekin to Minnewaukan, North Dakota.....68 miles.
We're always nervous and jerky about the winds, particularly when the forecast calls for 10 to 20 on the nose. Today the predicted winds were a no show so our early start only served to get us here about 1 PM. Same forecast for tomorrow so we'll do it again.
We stopped at Spirit Lake Sioux Casino for lunch [I had to twist Bill's arm to go in] but they were still doing breakfast so we each had a big plate pancakes and coffee for $2.50 total [Bill is now a big fan].
There are some big lakes around here and it's weird to see all that shoreline and with only a few farms on the shore. Bill says there are way less than a million people in this state and that the population is in decline. Today we finally arrived in a big town [population 389] so I can buy some fruit.
Dinner at Miller's Pub. I had a couple gallons of ketchup and tarter sauce to cover the Walleye fish. Nice folks at the bar. I'm not sure why but folks know they are along a Adventure Cyclists route unlike some of the other routes we've taken. Maybe because there are few people?
Tempertures in Fayette and Charleston have been running around 100 F so when we call home and report that the high here today was around 72F and we were a little cold starting our ride in the morning there is a certain coolness to hearing the news.
We stopped at Spirit Lake Sioux Casino for lunch [I had to twist Bill's arm to go in] but they were still doing breakfast so we each had a big plate pancakes and coffee for $2.50 total [Bill is now a big fan].
There are some big lakes around here and it's weird to see all that shoreline and with only a few farms on the shore. Bill says there are way less than a million people in this state and that the population is in decline. Today we finally arrived in a big town [population 389] so I can buy some fruit.
Dinner at Miller's Pub. I had a couple gallons of ketchup and tarter sauce to cover the Walleye fish. Nice folks at the bar. I'm not sure why but folks know they are along a Adventure Cyclists route unlike some of the other routes we've taken. Maybe because there are few people?
Tempertures in Fayette and Charleston have been running around 100 F so when we call home and report that the high here today was around 72F and we were a little cold starting our ride in the morning there is a certain coolness to hearing the news.
