We woke up to the smell of breakfast cooking. Ward and Jackey made some yummy pancakes, bacon, and zucchini bread! I decided that I would try to upload some more pictures, since I am very behind, so we took our time getting ready this morning. We were on the road around quarter to 11. In contrast to yesterday, all we needed was our shorts and jersey, it was a warm sunny day. After about 2 or 3 miles we realized how windy it was. The wind was so strong that we were being blown all over the road; it even blew me off the road onto the dirt shoulder a couple times. It was aweful, we could hardly keep our bikes straight, it was a good thing the road was a low traffic country road! There was even a time we were going downhill and we could only go 6mph. We reached the little town of Ridgeway after about 13 miles. I was already exhausted. We stopped at the local bar to fill up our waterbottles and decided we had better eat some lunch while we had a place where the wind would be blocked a little. We stat on the steps of a church and split the venison sausage that Jackey and Ward gave us; it hit the spot. I called Grandma and found out the bad news that the wind was supposed to continue for a couple days. Reluctantly, we got back on our bikes and continued peddling. This time, the wind was straight at us, which was better than being blown all over the road I guess. We were hardly making any progress. We were on our lowest gears and were still barely able to keep peddling and keep the bikes straight. Our average speed dropped significantly to around 5 or 6 miles per hour. There were times we could only go as fast as 3 or 4, even when it was flat. We took a couple breaks just to give ourselves a break from the wind, but we were still exhausted. We ended up riding only 28.37 miles today, it took us 4hours and 45 minutes!! I was more tired today than I was yesterday after riding 73 miles. We made camp between some silos on the side of the road. I cooked up some Ramen for dinner and caught up on my blogs. We hit the sack around 9, praying that tomorrow wouldn't be this windy. If only this wind would have been at our backs, we would have easily been able to do 90 miles today.
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