New Town, ND

QUESTION TIME! Ok so my facial hair is getting long.... and I need your help! I really need your participation on this so send your vote to me via any of the below.
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Should I shave now? or wait for the end of trip. I have not touched it all summer. Need your votes. Thanks! I will do what the majority wants



ANYWHO....

We all made it! including our van!

So first of all let me clarify the little "i hate wind" comment. I truely do hate wind. it is the bain of my existance and it will not leave us alone. We dealt with a headwind into Rugby, all 60 miles of it. i was just so furious i couldnt stand it. Oh and we heard from a local that the storm that caused us to take shelter behind a biulding had winds that reached 60...

anyway today's ride was simple enough. We started in Minot, ND where yesterday we had a day off. It was good to sleep and not ride my bike for 5 hours. So this morning, the local media came to see us off which was great. we left the church and headed on our way. we were less than 2 blocks away and we already were lost. So we spent the next 10 minutes asking around for directions and were off again. luckily we didnt follow google maps which had us going 10 miles east before heading south so we got to bypass 9 miles on the day. So around mile 20 our van pulls out infront and christopher the driver gets out to chalk. the only problem was when he got back in th van, it wouldnt come out of park, leaving us stranded for a couple of hours. I stayed back with Joy and Christopher to make sure the van got onits way fine with the tow truck and all, and to pass the time we all climbed in the van to get out of the wind and watch a movie. Well eventually the towtruck showed up and got us on our way and once again we were biking. The only real descriptive word i can use for ND terrain is it has lots of fields....lots of them. We could see our road for miles and miles and it was perfectly straight and their was not a town in site, then we would look back, and we could see for miles and miles without a town again, perfectly straight. We biked farther than we could see. The van got fixed and we made it to the small town of New Town, ND. We were just welcomed by a flash thunderstorm and looks like we will have many more later: