Day 5 – Medora, ND to Hebron, ND

Distance 74.6

Total Distance 245.1

One thing that has been nice so far is the weather predictions have been right on.  Wind blew from the south today at a pretty good clip.  For most of the day it was blowing right into my side.  That slowed things down quite a bit.  I averaged 13.2 mph.

Pretty ho hum as far as the scenery today. I don’t think that I took any pictures that you can enjoy.  The terrain was up and down all day long and it was a lot of miles.  With the wind, I think it did me in somewhat emotionally.  It seems on trips after you have ridden three or four days straight your body starts to say, “What are you doing to me?”.  I think my body is rebelling at the moment.  The wind did shift to come from the Northwest later in the day and that helped me to get the last miles in.

You can see what type of country we are now.  Oil businesses all over the place.

I don't know what this is.  It is on a trailer??

I thought this storm was going to get me this afternoon, but I guess I am too fast. 😉

This was on the road as I entered Taylor.  It would spin with the wind with lawn mowers, bicycles etc on it.  Fun.

Pretty nice church for a town of 700. Richardton, ND.  There is a nuns monastery there.

We had a little accident with the RV tonight.  This city that we are in has no RV park, but they gave us permission to stay at their city park.  We felt that we can just use the RV for water and restroom etc, but as we were pulling through a gutter to park, the back plumbing on the RV hit the road and broke off.  I have been spending the night trying to find a place in Bismarck, ND to get it fixed and the worry is they won't have the right parts.  I guess worst case, we will have to stop using the facilities in the RV. Kind of messed up my night, but it's just a problem that needs fixing.

Got into a little rain this morning.  It didn’t look like it was going to last that long, but is was a cold rain and I think it was just following me down the road.  I finally had to stop and put on my rain jacket.  I was having to ride the freeway at the time and this sweet lady pulled over and asked if I wanted to get out of the rain and ride with her down the road.  I had to turn her down, but I thought that was great.  I remember once I was in Wilmington, North Carolina and it just started pouring.  I was with Bill from Michigan and we had to pull over due to worry over cars behind us being able to see us.  We stood out in that rain for an hour and not one person stopped to see if we needed help.  That is why I think this lady deserves a few gold stars.

Well, I think I am going to get up early and take off riding so I have time to try and get the RV fixed, so good night.