[We got to Chicago late the night of the 26th. As you can hopefully see I've been trying to get these emails caught up.
It's been a lot of fun hanging out with our friend Heather and Brad's girlfriend Erin. Too much fun really, it's got us thinking of all the things we'd rather be doing back at home. As a result we're going to cut a couple hundred miles off the ride to the coact by riding into Washington D.C. instead of Boston, MA.
We're ready to leave Chicago as soon as the rain stops.]
Our camp for the night was five miles past the state line. It's 430 something miles across Nebraska on Hwy 20 and we'd decided to try to cross the state in 96 hours.
We got an early start and by 13:00 we'd picked up 55 miles, lunch sounded like a good reward so we hit up the Pizza Hut. Two problems with the all you-can-eat salad bar: it takes too long, we spent two hours trying to fill ourselves up, aud all salad and no carbs isn't the best riding lunch, it takes for ever to turn into fuel.
Every time we had mentioned Nebraska to someone in Wyoming they'd made the same face and said "Ewww, not much to see there 'sept corn fields and hog farms" then they'd pinch their nose. After passing our first hog farm I'd say the nose pinching was warranted. Because of the direction of the wind I saw it's siqn before I smelled it, but once we I did start smelling it the wind carried the scent to me for half a mile. I'm not looking forward to passing more of them.
We camped a few miles outside of Gordon, NE on the side of a corn field. There were storms out in the distance but because we didn't want to be visible from the road we didn't put up the tent. Around 23:30 the pre-storm winds kicked up and it was pretty clear it was going to rain. Brad and I struggled to put up the tent in the gusting wind for 20 minutes before we were able to get it up and get back to sleep.
andrew
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