Sometimes I just get so excited being out here that I forget my body can only take so much. Today was a day when my body said "enough, I need to rest". And so we only rode about 250 miles and then took it easy. Unfortunately about 15 miles of it was through an area of HEAVY road construction. All the concrete and asphalt had been removed and we were riding on dirt, mud and loose gravel. Huge construction equipment was all around us as our bikes shimmied and turned from left and right without our steering it either way. It truly is a wonder that neither of as layed our bikes down. Seeing Bob head straight for a huge earth mover and then turn at the last moment was quite the scenes. Doing it myself was even worse! But we did it and we had great stories to tell at dinner! The perils of being explorers!
The ride gave us some of the best views of the Missouri River and of the Lewis and Clark Trail. We ended the day in Williston ND, a oil and gas town Bob and I had been to before on business. It looks a lot nicer in the summer than it did in the winter.
Now, about that rest....
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