Hump day

Connection issues again. With no wifi and 20,000 texting at once I was not able to connect for the last few days. Honestly, it's been pretty nice.

Wednesday was culture day. Mike and I rolled into the town of State Center after about 25 of our 60 miles done and heard some good things about the town's library so we decided to add a little culture to our ride. On the way to the library we came across the grocery museum in town. It looked a lot like the western springs store did at the beginning. After that museum we went on to the library which is in an old Victorian house. We were thoughroily impressed with the library and after talking to a few locals we were sent to 2 other museums, the old schoolhouse and the newly opened train depot museum. We talked to the ex-history teacher/mayor and learned a lot about Iowa then we talked to his replacement as history teacher about the train lines. It was so crazy to have such a cool experience while biking.

Speaking of biking, it was a pretty decent day with a lot of stops for food as well as the culture bit we needed them. Turns out the elevation totals looked low for the whole day but it seems like it was all compacted in to the last 20 miles. Headwinds and hills were a bear and the worst part was the text from uncle jerry telling me how bad the last 20 would be as we had 22 miles to go. Turns out uncle jerry was right, it was brutal. I was really glad to off the bike.

Taco night! Starting with a beet salsa with edible flower then a bean mixture that was so delicious that's all I wanted to eat but then the 4 types of taco mixtures it was hard to choose, so i didn't. I had all 4. Again, flawless.