Sept 13 Thur 35 days from home!

DAY Thirty-Five Minot ND to Rugby ND 105km
Sept 13/07 Thursday D 105.08km M39.5 A 25 PT4 h24 RT 5h total 2733.6 km
Wind Howling when we got up, Incredible wind from the north west all day When the road swung to the north I could hardly keep my bike up
Temp Blankets were great 10C in tent 5C outside! High today was 8C bloody cold! & windy[no complaints there] Expecting freezing temperatures tonight.. presently 10C in tent at 2000h…. will see. Ken got mittens! And a toque!
Road Conditions: rough gravel shoulder Quiet road , divided hiway all the way so we just took a lane. About 55km got a better shoulder. Everyone just moved over.
Accommodations: Cann’t say enough about Swenson’s Valley View RV Pk 1 800 735-5846 www.swensonrv.com tonight at Oakwood Inn and CG 601 Hwy 2SW Rugby, ND 701 776-5272 Nice grassy spot… cann’t do anything about the wind. Has laundry, internet free, microwave and tv spot. Looks like a clean motel too. $8 to camp
FOOD Breakfast: usual fruit
Lunch: Towner… was to be our destination, but the wind blew us so fast we came on to Rugby. Had our sandwiches in a Cenex station that has tables inside and hot food for sale… we made our own sandwiches and had hot drinks… they didn’t seem to mind at all.
Supper we found some boil in a bag rice bean meal and had veggie burgers all microwaved Worked but not fancy
Overall We pedaled off without Derryl our companion as he had some things yet to do in the big city. We left with the wind at our backs and arrived in Rugby same, but had a few “snakes “ of the road which caused us to turn north into the wind. Wonderful when the wind was at our backs… note the Average speed of 25!
Reached Gainville looking for a café and got taken in by the electric company guys having a meeting. Ken got coffee and we got out of the wind for a few minutes. They are just investigating wind energy usage… it is always windy here so makes sense. Seeing ++ fields of corn.. starting the harvest. Surprised us to see they don’t pick the cobs, just mulch it all up. Saw a beautiful deer down by the Mouse river… couldn’t smell us so thought we couldn’t see it!