Rapid City, SD to Spencer, IA: 3 states, 517 miles, 11 hours on the road, 9.5 in the saddle.
Today's big event was fighting the wind. Riding a motorcycle sideways at 75mph in order to stay on the road was another new adventure for me. The biggest part was passing the semi's. Wooo, what a ride! Not one I thoroughly enjoyed either. I was happy I had my mp3 player going to help keep my mind at ease.
Our group started the morning with a little excitement. Lori took off a few minutes ahead of us and about 40 minutes down the road we passed her on the side of the road. It appears her throttle was a bit too open and the local police had to give her a talkin' to. Luckily, she just received a warning.
Our "planned" detour for today was to visit Lori's home town of La Mars, IA, which, by the way, is the home of Blue Bunny ice cream and Bob's Drive In. Lori treated us all to lunch at Bob's so that we can enjoy the world's best hot dogs and a tavern (loose meat) sandwich. Yummy! We also had ice cream of course. Definitely worth the detour. Thanks Lori!!
We finally made it to Spencer about 6:30 CT safely (thank you angels) and exhausted. Tomorrow will be another long day as we make our final leg of this fabulous adventure, well, the first half anyway.
Next stop, Milwaukee!
1 comment:
glad to hear she only got a "warning"! :)
Blue Bunny ice cream!! yummy!! I'll skip the meat stuff, though.. okay for you carnivores I suppose ;)
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