David

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Day 132: Ashkum

Headwinds, heat and humidity, does not make for ideal riding conditions. So retired to the air conditioned library at Odell for an hour or so at peak heat to plan future route and

Day 131: Henry

For the first part of today's ride it most definately felt odd returning to solo riding. I certainly was not missing the early starts but did miss the company of some

Day 130: (RAGBRAI Day 7)

That's it, RAGBRAI has concluded. Tomorrow I return to cycling in a group that consists of one, rather than with some 10 - 15 thousand other riders. Ice cream queue: I

Day 128: Hiawatha (RAGBRAI Day 5)

Lie-in until 6.30am: yippee! The later start meant that the queues were significantly longer at the food and drink vendors. Indeed, it was so bad at the handmade ice cream stop that

Day 126: Eldora (RAGBRAI Day 3)

Oh what joy: A lie-in until 5.30AM! On the road for approximately 6.20AM. And really great 100 miles of cycling: met a lot of great people along the way and, according

Day 122: Sioux City

So, after a 103 mile cycle I arrived back in Sioux City. It was a very hot ride with temperatures exceeding 100°F. Indeed, a young couple stopped and offered me thier wide

Day 121: Omaha (Rest Day)

Paid a visit to the Joslyn Art Museum, mouched around Old Market Area, ate and drank the local fayre, and relaxed, before cleaning bike (it collected much crap (dust/dirt/limestone) whilst cycling

Day 120: Omaha

Now going north east towards Sioux City and RAGBRAI with a stopover in Omaha: the largest city in Nebraska. On the way there were more GPS issues, but fortunately I'd abandoned

Day 119: Lincoln (Culture Day)

So thought I'd go to the Sheldon Art Gallery. Unfortunately the main gallery was closed with only 3 temporary exhibitions open to the public, so although there were some interesting works

Day 118: Lincoln

Today was most certainly adventurous. It started with a thunderstorm, which occurred just as the day was starting for me. And oh boy what a warm night, at 4am it was still in

Day 115: Vermillion

Return of the headwinds! So I went to sleep with no wind, neither personally or metrologically. Only to awake in the night to hear the trees rustling and the tent shaking when the

Day 114: Springfield

Joy of Joys. There was no south-westerly wind for the 200m (660ft) climb first thing this morning. Indeed the wind behaved as I've become accustomed to it: no wind early in

Day 112: Big Bend Dam Campground

Well I must say that Pierre, with the exception of the European grandeur of the State Capital Building, was somewhat disappointing. With regards to the day's cycling, it was a great

Day 111: Pierre (Rest Day)

So I thought a rest day in the capital of South Dakota a good idea as 1) I can plan my itinerary up to the start of RAGBRAI 2) visit the State Capitol

Day 110: Pierre

Jettison Photograph of the Day Plenty of fireworks last night. Hopefully that's it for the rest of the trip. More headwinds today, as I made my way to Pierre: The State

Day 109: Bob's Resort (Nr Gettysberg, SD)

Discard Photograph of the Day: Although many an item is either purposely or accidentally jettisoned from road vehicles not all discards are equal: some are roadside treasure to other travellers. For example, this