[Yeah, so that last email wasn't really ready to go out but got sent accidentally, ignore the *s.
Up here in real time we're in Chesterville, OH less than 550 miles from D.C. ]
We woke up in the park in Inman, NE. Sand from the volleyball court we'd camped on had gotten into everything, with a double helping in the drive train of my bike. I cooked rice and beans for breakfast and then tried to defoul my bike while Brad went on a search for a faucet to fill up water. Leaving at 12:00, it was hardly the model departure.
A few miles down the road I saw a cyclist aproaching. I'd learned a neat trick from Jim, the rider we met back near Arco, ID. If you want to talk to an oncoming cyclist, just pull onto their side of the road and park in front of them. Unless they're a total jerk they'll stop and talk to you. This particular cyclist, named Ashley, wasn't a total jerk so she talked to us for a couple minutes. She was riding home from her waiteressing job at a milkshake place in Plainview, NE. Roger and Steve had stopped in while she was working. Ashley mentioned that she wanted to do a cross country ride but her sub-goal was to do the RAGBRAI-inspired ride across Nebraska.
Contrary to what I'd thought a few days before I'd really enjoyed Nebraska. They're paving a bike path called the Cowboy Trail on an old railroad bed paralleling US 20. When it's finished it will be one of the longest paths in the US. There are towns every 10 or 15 miles so finding services isn't a problem and almost all the towns have free campgrounds. Maybe I'll come back in a couple of years and ride it either way I've got no problem recomending a trip to or through Nebraska.
andrew
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