Fergus Falls, MN

The pictures from today are beautiful but this was probably the hardest ride we have had the entire adventure.  We pulled out of Alexandria....
Got back on the trail and headed northwest to Fergus Falls...
It was great when we had the green tunnel but those stretches of trail were few and far between (we already miss the deciduous forest!)...
And when we were not in the green tunnel we were totally exposed...
We took a break in Dalton (the little blue dot above is us)...where the strapped down trash can was even blown over!
And then headed back into the wall of wind...
We did not even have to use our brakes to stop!
We arrived in Fergus Falls totally spent...
Having earned every foot of these 51.2 miles...

Comments

  1. AnneJuly 11, 2022 at 7:05 PM

    You are my heroes. Excellent is the word for today.

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  2. ZblogJuly 11, 2022 at 9:38 PM

    The pics are great!! Here's the bike mapper so far (based on original trip): https://rpubs.com/ZLadin/bikeMapper

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  3. Greg ShriverJuly 11, 2022 at 10:10 PM

    Cool! Pulling from "The Plan" will only loosely follow our actual path!

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    1. ZblogJuly 12, 2022 at 8:16 PM

      Here's a better (dynamic) version of 'The Plan' :https://zachl.shinyapps.io/Bike_Mapper/. . .although I'd have to tinker with the web-scraping to get the actual locations and dates to feed it. . .

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