We only managed about 55 miles yesterday coming out of Sioux Falls. The day started fairly comfortable, but the heat just continued to build until it reached the unbearable stage around 4:00. At that point we shortened the day's itinerary and headed south to Freeman. We found the city park located conveniently next to the city pool! The definition of city is very much different here in rural America. So the evening consisted of meeting the owner of the local grocery store who very nicely put some Gatorades in the cooler for us to pick up in the morning. The store opened at 7am but he assured us that if we were leaving before then to just come on in, he gets there about 5am every day and the front door would be open. We took a dip in the pool, set up the tent in the park and went to sleep at sundown. Today is not quite as humid, but the heat continues to build. We have ducked into the city library at Parkston and plan to only bike about 20 more miles today. If you want to check on our route, we are biking west on State Highway 44. We'll be doing the same across the Missouri and on west into Rapid City. Then it's the Badlands and the Black Hills.
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- Mary and Dave
- We are at it again. We cycled 1200 miles down the coast of Oregon, into California, over the Golden Gate Bridge and into San Francisco. Then it was a ferry across the bay to Vallejo and a lovely side trip up the Napa Valley to Callestoga. That was the end of the bike portion of our trip.
