Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Day 54 McGregor to Dyersville IA

DAY FIFTY-FOUR McGregor IA to Dyersville IA
Oct 2 Tuesday D 75.82km M 39.3 A 13.6 PT5h32 RT9h total 4238.4km

Wind Oh I’m fed up with talking about the south winds Head winds all day once again!
Temp 18C with 100% humidity first thing this morning to 22C and a thunderstorm by 3:30pm
Road Condition great with some 8% grades up and down; Hwy 52 terrible with 2” drop to gravel shoulder/ traffic++
Food: Breakfast Boring as usual until we stopped for a coffee break and had cinnamon buns in Gutteberg
Lunch Luxenburg picnic
Supper Pizza out while the clothes washed themselves
Accommodation: No trouble at the campsite. Up and off by 0700 as foggy and a long day ahead.
Overall: Really strenuous day up up and down down into the wind. Neat views of large Mississippi River. Threat of rain all day finally hit at 1430 in New Vienna. We raced into a auto mechanics shop and stayed there for an hour until the lightening and thunder moved off. Really rained hard. We made a reservation with a hotel and set off in a drizzle to arrive a little wet. It poured on and off all evening. We did our laundry while we went out for pizza and it poured and blew a gail once more. There were tornado warnings for south of us, but I don’t think they hit Iowa. Very turbulent weather. We have headed away from the Mississippi River as we go straight south. Didn’t make it to Cascade today but hope to make up the lost time in the next few days. My grandmother [Florence French/Tomlinson] was from Keokuk Iowa in the extreme south. We are hoping to go there if the weather systems start to settle down in the next few days.

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