Interesting day today. Rained about half the time and the temp dropped down into the mid-50's. As one might imagine, North Dakota is pretty flat and rural. My brother-in-low, Charles Streisel, is an avid bicyclist and he was telling me that US2 is a favorite route for bicyclers to go from coast to coast. And they go from west to east because the winds blow from the west and also...it's basically all downhill. Anyway, I must have seen 20 cyclers individually or in small groups loaded down with camping gear and headed east. I said it's all down hill, but maybe I should have said it's all downhill on average. There are lots of very long, gradual grades that would have given me a coronary just looking at them. But there they were, pedaling along in 18th gear, legs churning and the bike moving inches at a time. I guess the 20 mph tailwinds must have helped some, though.
Here's today's geography lesson...Do you know where the geographical center of North America is? Well, I didn't either until around 10:30 today, and it's:
The Geographical Center of North America...Rugby, ND
No explaination as to why the metropolis is named after an Austrailian game that's a primitive form of football, but..
Also, made a new friend today. Ken is from Augusta, GA and he's travelling to Alaska, his second such trip. He's going up thru Edmunton, Alberta, and I'm going up a couple hundred miles west of there, but he promised to keep an eye out for me.
Ken in Rugby, ND on his way to Alaska.
