Today there was no wind, there was no rain, there were no bugs, there was no heat, about 70 degrees most of the day, there were no hills, and there were no panniers on our bikes, Mary Ann had them in the car. We bicycled 70 miles in about 5 hours. It was the number one easiest day of the trip. Very, very nice enjoyable day. We are camped tonight on the Mississippi River again at Lansing, Iowa. Iowa is corn, corn, corn and more corn.
I said no bugs, but there was one exception. I had a bee or yellow jacket fly into my mouth. I didn’t know what kind of bug it was and I was trying to spit it out as it buzzed around frantically in my mouth. He stung me and I chomped down on him and then spit him out. Boy, that hurt like crazy!
We pulled into a gas station to use the bathroom and just as we got our bikes on the kickstands about 50 motorcycles came roaring in and parked all around where we were standing. Being an ex motorcycle dude I started talking to them, and I got the coldest, rudest response. One of the young girls with the group said don’t mind them, they think that because you are riding a bicycle that you must be some
kind of environmentalist or something!
tomorrow we will be going about 80 miles and it looks like from the weather report that we will have a 10 mph head wind, and the profile shows a bunch of big hills. Oh well, I guess one easy day is all we get this week.
Love you all. Dee
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Dee- you are looking good! Don’t worry about the bikers shunning you, they’re a bunch of losers! Glad that you are getting a few days of riding without the extra 60 lbs. Make sure you are praying for Ricky- too much red in his report and whining about his wife traveling back in New York for a few weeks. Told him to read your blog so we can encourage him!
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Dee, You and John are awesome Dudes. Keep up the great pace, keep the rubber side down and the sunny side up.
Think positive, tomorrow will be the only day this week with a little wind and the hills will be small.
Love ya man.
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