Monday June 29th - evening

Finished the day with 337 miles. I am now sitting in my comfortable little folding chair at "Redwood Campground" on the Redwood River near Redwood City, Minnesota. Very nice campground, lots of big red oak trees and some other kind that I don't recognize that have my entire area in shade. The river is 10 feet away and is making a very soothing noise for a fisherman. No mosquitoes so far. Hot showers that are clean and free. Lots of RV campers, but no other tent campers so I don't have neighbors to invite me to dinner. Guess I better get busy heating water for some delicious freeze dried dinner. Let's see, I think I will have Teriyaki chicken and rice tonight:-)

By the end of today the wind was just as strong, but I was riding much more comfortably in it. Got used to it and it wasn't nearly as intimidating as earlier in the day. Even got to the point that the wind blowing on me was a bit exhilarating, you know, what this riding is all about, riding with the wind:-) I saw quite a few big wind generators today. I think if they would put one on every acre of land in this prairie that they could supply the world with electricity.

So far Minnesota has the best roads and New Hampshire and Vermont have the worst. Only rode on mountain roads in New Hampshire & Vermont, so that may be unfair. Nice farms in Minnesota. Well kept, good crops, lots of corn, corn, corn.