Day 43: Dalbo, MN to Bowlus, MN

June 17, 2021

West of the Mississippi Again

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Climbing Today; 778 ft Climbing to Date; 68,804 ft

I’m doing some of the journal today using voice dictation while I’m riding on the bike. We’ll see how that works.

Preparing to Leave - This Was A Great Place to Stay

We signed the journal this morning at the bunkhouse in Dalbo, and wrote about how much we appreciated having a place to stay. I was a few miles down the road and Doc had stayed behind to finish up some things, when I panicked because I realized I hadn’t left a donation. I called Doc and asked him to leave one for me and he told me he already had it covered. He had left a very generous donation which exceeded what I was going to leave, so I felt good about that.

We had to roll about 16 miles down the road to get to a town that had some convenience stores for Doc to get his breakfast. I had taken advantage of the bunkhouse cooking facilities and made myself a couple of eggs and toast and had some juice for breakfast, so I was pretty good.

As I’m dictating this, we are between Milaca and Ramey now. County Road 14 had barricades up and said "closed to through traffic" but we needed to go that way, so we took a chance and fortunately we got through the construction just fine.

This Guy Thought He Was Invisible If He Held Still

We are planning to camp tonight in Bowlus at the city park, which is adjacent to the trail system that we will be riding on for several days. Our camping location is next to a restaurant that has good pies, and the owner of the restaurant is actually the person who arranges for you to camp and keep the restroom facilities open.

I Grew Up In Little Rock - This Ain't It

Minnesota Is Experiencing A Drought - The Corn Must Be Watered

Update; we arrived and set up camp in the city park. It's all good, but no showers. But there is a sink in the bathroom, and no one is using the community center bathrooms except us, so - I feel a sponge bath is about to happen. Just had a reuben sandwich and soup, all is well.

We are moving 1 day at a time, and constantly changing plans as we go now - we are probably due for a day off soon so we can plan for the rest of the journey. It takes a lot of time trying to figure out each day's jump, whether we are inside or camping, are we on schedule, etc. We may be in a hotel tomorrow night - maybe. Good night folks...

Today's ride: 61 miles (98 km)
Total: 2,249 miles (3,619 km)

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