38 miles. Short, quiet day.

Our trek to Gackle and our Warm Showers stay at the Honey Hub (more on the name later) was on a more or less empty road. It’s the same route that drove us nuts yesterday with the screaming trucks blast in sand and rocks in our faces but today there was hardly any traffic at all! Start of a 4 day weekend maybe? The wind was from the South today (that is, from our right instead of our left as yesterday) and that effectively cancelled any blowing sand or huge bursts of wind from what little traffic there was.  There was still no shoulder but riding on the roadway was OK.

Our road today. Note the 65 MPH limit and the lack of shoulder. The small space between the white line and the grass is all rumble strip!

We passed through rolling hills just like the last several days and past an increasing number of lakes.  Minnesota might be the land of 10,000 lakes but Eastern North Dakota has 9,999. Some of the lakes even had resident Pelicans!

We’re staying tonight in the basement of the house of the owner of Miller Honey. They’re one of the largest honey producers in the country and the makers of Honey Stinger Energy Chews. Every summer they truck their 12000 or so hives from Northern California to Gackle, ND, then back to CA for the winter and Spring. That is the origin of their bike retreat, Honey Hub.