Devils lake NORTH DAKOTA!

We left Minnesota today and we got a cold stormy welcome to North Dakota. Yesterday was good by the way. I rode with Quang and he has just such a good attitude. we had a 90 mile day, and none of us wanted it. well Quang just let me know that a mile on a bike is just like shooting a fish in a barrel. so its really easy to just shoot a fish in a barrel 90 times. Well the miles just flew by. So a great prelude into our 120 mile today!

Anyway so we had to get up at 4:15 am to leave at 5;30 to get into devils lake by 4 to make it to Isaiah's farm which is absolutely great. well the ride started off perfect (besides the whole 4:15 thing) we got to watch the sunrise in the background as we rode our first 20 miles and made out first lunch stop at 8:30 am. We were booking. Thank God there was no headwind, we were all anticipating it and if it had been there I probably still wouldn't have arrived. By 1130 we made it 80 miles to our second lunch stop where we were warned about an incoming storm. Well the guy that warned us said it was just a storm and didn't really warn us for the severity of this minor hurricane we were about to hit. We were about 10 miles out and started to get nervous with the lightning strikes. Then the rain came harder then the wind came at about 30 mph. This was the first time in the trip i couldn't ride my bike. it was so windy and so hard to see that i couldn't stay vertical. Our group (Kate, Derek, and Craig) ran (or walked because the rain and wind was so hard to stand in) to a wall. that was all we had to protect us from this thing. So we waited about 45 minutes freezing as the wind and lightning passed. i must say i have never been in a worse storm. Anyway we chugged on to get warm and we finally made it! then we headed straight to Isaiah's farm which is awesome. I got to ride a tractor for the first time and then ride a horse for the first time as well. These horses were excellent and we were able to do tricks and jumping onto the horses. So much Fun.

Ok well sorry i couldn't relay how cool this farm is in my writing. Hope all is well!




Joke: two antennas had a wedding ... the ceremony was awful, but the reception was fantastic!