Monday, August 5, 2019

Day 3

We Left Woodberry Minnesota this morning and high tailed it to North Dakota. We were making some great time, no big cities to go through, and the speed limit is 70 in Minnesota, then goes up to 75 in North Dakota. we are just staying on route 94. Minnesota was beautiful. rolling hills, and a lot of old farm houses.  North Dakota also very beautiful, in a different way... it is flatter but, has a lot of water large ponds? on both sides of the roads. I saw an eagles nest, and some egrets, I got to see a little more in North Dakota because the traffic was more sparse than in Minnesota.

I'm getting excited because we are getting to darker skies too.

We were making great time, but getting really bad gas mileage..  mine went down to 34 MPG... I'm not liking that. But we were hitting some pretty bad cross winds too, so that doesn't help.

I rode for a little today without my chaps, I was just so hot yesterday.... I didn't feel comfortable at all, so at the first gas stop I put them back on.

We hit about 4 rain drops today. and the weather seemed cooler up here, but, actually it was still pretty warm, but, the humidity was very low... 34%. Some pretty bad storms came though here yesterday, but blew threw during the night.... Good for us!!!

We stopped for the Night in Bismark, North Dakota. We went to the Space Aliens Grill and Bar for dinner. within walking distance from the hotel. We really enjoyed the décor and the food. The Building was super cool on the outside too!

Tomorrow we are headed to Red Lodge Montana. Once we get there we will take the day off... do some laundry check out town... and see where the wind blows us


2 comments:

  1. I battle constantly in my mind with comfort and safety on my bike. I don't feature the concept of being covered in road rash BUT if i am so covered with protection i am dying from the heat and not enjoying the ride the why am i even bothering to do it in the first place... I am very often in shorts and a t-shirt if i'm going to be on a freeway i wear jeans...

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    1. I ware a mesh jacket in the summer. Riding around here. Just Jeans..... on my long road trips always ware my chaps....

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