Category: USA

Even in our darkened motel room, we were awake before our 8am alarm. But there was no rush, since we had some of the forecasted morning rain to wait out (part of the reason we stayed under a roof in the first place). The continental breakfast was pretty weak, especially until more waffle batter turned…

We were up at 6am, and on the road before 8am, a highly-efficient start for us. The empty farm roads continued, as did more drafting, though this time the wind was coming more from our right side, so Rett being behind and further out into the road is somewhat less-comfortable. But then we hit the…

Rolling eastward again, we had our first significant headwinds so far. But we remained in the low-population, farm-road-crisscrossed former Great Black Swamp, so that meant that the roads were empty enough for us to do the rarest of things: let Rett ride behind me to draft. She is almost always in front, for her own…

Day 2 We’d planned an unusual two nights at Sauder Village Campground (normally our multi-night stays are places where we have a roof over us), partly because it was a way to enable Rett to stay up late for her video chat, partly because we’d done five straight days of riding after our re-start and…