USA 2015

The Second of Dave's 10,000 Mile North American Cycling Odysseys Documented by Daily Posts. The route is different and only lasted 176 Days.

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

Day 107: Beaver Creek Campground

Rubbish Photograph of the Day: After a fruitless attempt to find two keys during an 11 mile cycle ride around Bismark revisiting the various stops I made yesterday, I headed south following the

Day 106: Bismark (Rest Day)

A busy rest day! Shorts repaired; pocket sown on shirt; replacement cycle shorts purchased; spare winter clothes posted back to UK; chain cleaned; some cycling; and a trip to the North Dakota Capitol