Colin:
Since we had cut our day a bit short the day before, we woke up and decamped early.
We hit the road full of optimism for a solid day. Then we met the same headwinds from the previous afternoon.
The winds were southeasterly and so we weren't headed directly into it, unless the road bent southwards but the combination of a head and crossing winds may just have been worse.
Right out of the gate, construction had both lanes of the highway sharing one side giving us an uncomfortably small shoulder.
A couple of miles in, however there was again pavement on the closed road and so we walked our bikes across the grass median and had a full 2 lane highway to ourselves for the next 55 miles.
Eventually we reached normal road conditions, continuing to fight the wind all of the way. Highlight of the Day: a metal sculpture of a dinosaur led by a man on the highway (photo below).
Just as that wind shifted south to be a true crosswind and get out of our faces, the rest of the weather forecast changed to include a potential thunderstorm.
We arrived in Kennebec with plans to hit the local KOA campground. But with the storm looming behind us we decided to err on the side of caution and check into a local motel.
The woman working at the reception desk assured us that this was the right move, which was confirmed almost immediately by the emergency warnings on the tv in our room.
We got a bit of local culture (see photo of fridge) at the reataurant and bar across the street and settled in to wait out the storm.
88 miles
1561 miles total.
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