The Beers

Alicia and I enjoy many outdoor activities. Alicia has long had a life goal of bicycling across America. It sounded like a great adventure to me. This was an opportune pause in our lives with a recent job loss (May 2009), so with just three weeks of planning and training - we were off.

This trek started May 24th, 2009 from Anacortes, Washington ending 65 days later in Portland, Maine (We had expected 60 days to Bar Harbor, Maine.).

3964 spinning miles!! Biggest day 115 miles. ~~Pete Beer

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Day 28. Minot then Surrey


We are blinking back online. It has been awhile. Our routing took us off the "Hi-Line" (Highway 2's name locally) to avoid traffic. That was a big joke!! Turns out North Dakota is going through a lot of oil exploration right now and so we had to contend with all manor of heavy truck traffic on what once was probably a sleepy country road. Oh and the hills. Up and down most of the day. It was good but tough. We have had some nice tail winds for which we are most thankful!.

This also meant almost no cell coverage or internet. Another post for our biggest day somehow did not make it. So, you will see a rewrite of that later.

This is Sabbath and we have had a nice morning ride into Minot. We are thinking of making church yet, if we can. There has been some real pretty country here in North Dakota. So far, we have come 44 miles from our stop yesterday in Makoti (More in another post.). We plan to go on to Surrey which is another 9 miles and camp there for the night. Tomorrow... Rugby, ND.

~Pete

1 comment:

  1. I love my North Dakota rolling prairies. Love, Mom

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